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☆ They Thought They Knew Death, but That Didn’t Prepare Them for Oct. 7
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Sheera Frenkel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At 76, David Weissenstern has collected the remains of the dead for most of his adult life. But after the Oct. 7 attacks, in which Hamas-led fighters killed about 1,200 people along Israel’s border with Gaza, he can no longer stand the smell of grilled meat. His son Duby Weissenstern, 48, has lost track of time after working successive days and nights to recover those killed on Oct. 7. And his son-in-law Israel Ganot, 32, now gags at the smell of food that has turned rotten. He was in the second wave of recovery workers who reached bodies that had been trapped under rubble for weeks.

Persons: David Weissenstern, Duby Weissenstern, Israel Ganot Organizations: Hamas Locations: Gaza, Israeli, Israel

Mendes' account is one of seven given to Reuters by first responders or others dealing with the dead that attest to alleged sexual violence. VICTIMS DEAD, TRAUMATIZEDIn Israeli criminal law, sexual violence includes rape, but also indecent acts, harrassment and sexually demeaning a person – including forced nudity – among other offences. Some of those purporting to show sexual violence could not be authenticated – one seen by Reuters appeared to date to 2021. The news agency verified the locations of two other videos that suggest sexual violence, shared on social media within a day of the attack. Israeli lawyers say its evidentiary requirements on sexual violence are less challenging than Israel's.

Persons: Ronen, Shari Mendes, Mendes, It's, Deen al, Beeri, Taher al, Nono, Orit Soliciano, Neubach, Shelly Harush, Chen Kugel, Kugel, Dana Pugach, Rabbi Israel Weiss, Nachman Dyksztejn, Rami Shmuel, Shani Louk, Yael Vias Gvirsman, Vias Gvirsman, Geert, Jan Knoops, Israel, Peter Hirschberg, Anthony Deutsch, Stephanie Van Den Berg, Edmund Blair, Sara Ledwith, Daniel Flynn Organizations: Nova Festival, REUTERS, Rights, Shura, Reuters, Israel's Association, Association, Authorities, Israel National Center of Forensic Medicine, Ono Academic, Zaka, Police, Criminal Court, ICC, Israel's, Israeli Defence Force, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Israel's, Israel, Israeli, The Hague, Tel Aviv, Shura, Amsterdam, London

☆ Sheryl Sandberg, Hillary Clinton, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and others issue a global call to action to denounce sexual violence at UN Summit
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Jennifer Cunningham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Sheryl Sandberg condemned the violence perpetrated against women during Hamas' terrorist attack on October 7 and called on the world to do the same. Sandberg was joined by a host of luminaries, including Hillary Clinton and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, for a UN summit on gender-based violence. Gilad Erdan and Debra Messing attend the summit on sexual violence against women in wartime at the United Nations on Dec. 4, 2023. UN Women issued a statement in December condemning the attacks and expressing alarm at the "numerous accounts of gender-based atrocities and sexual violence during those attacks." Israel's Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan addresses the UN Summit on the gender-based violence in the Oct. 7 terrorist attack.

Persons: Sheryl Sandberg, Sandberg, Hillary Clinton, Sen, Kirsten Gillibrand, —, Debra Messing, Julianna Margulies, Tom Berthal, Amb, Gilad Erdan, Shazar, " Sandberg, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Liel Hetzroni, Ila, Hetzroni, Revivim, Alexi J, Rosenfeld, Simcha Greiniman, Greiniman, York Sen, Gillibrand, Sima Bahous, Erdan Organizations: Hamas, UN, Service, United Nations, Gaza Health Ministry, Be'eri Locations: Gaza, New York City, Israel, Dubai, Revivim, York, Hamas

☆ Muslim rescuer says Israel kibbutz bloodshed caused by attackers' hate
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Eli Berlzon | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Unlike most emergency workers called out that day, Warraqi is a Muslim Israeli Arab. Warraqi is a volunteer for Zaka, a non-governmental rescue and recovery service. "I saw families, they were slaughtered, a lot of families," Warraqi told Reuters, standing next to his ambulance. "Our religion, as a proud Arabic Muslim Israeli guy, I'm saying that has nothing to do with our religion," Warraqi said. Warraqi is still hopeful that Jews, Arabs, Christians and Muslims can learn to live together in Israel, saying "we are all the same".

Persons: Jamal Waraqy, Israel Perlshtein, Eli Berlzon, Jamal Warraqi, Warraqi, Be'eri, they're, Krisztina, William Maclean Organizations: Be'eri, Reuters, Hamas, Thomson Locations: Rehovot, Israel, Israeli, Zaka, Gaza, East Jerusalem

☆ Hunted by Hamas: reconstructing the attack on Israel’s Kibbutz Be’eri
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

Rescue missionIt was around 4 p.m. when Menachem Klemenson got a four-word WhatsApp message from his brother Elhanan: “Packing, going down south,” it read. As the Klemensons and their nephew drove around extracting families, kibbutz residents jumped out of their hiding places. I am a father.”In the girl’s case, as with the bodies of other kibbutz residents the trio found, they did not know their identities, nor was Reuters able to identify them. “Either you leave the dog or I shoot it,” Menachem recalls his brother Elhanan saying. Politicians and the military had violated a fundamental compact with the residents of Be’eri, said kibbutz secretary Pauker.

Persons: Menachem Klemenson, Elhanan, Itiel Zohar, Menachem, He’d, ” Menachem, “, ”, Itah, ” Itah, ‘, he’d, ” Elhanan, Nephew Itiel, Solvy, Ella Ben Ami, Gazans, Pauker, ” Pauker Organizations: West Bank –, Google, Reuters, ” Reuters, Hamas, IDF Locations: Otniel, Judea, Samaria, Be’eri, Gaza, Vineyard

☆ I volunteered in Ukraine when Russia invaded and in Israel when Hamas attacked. In Ukraine, I saved lives. In Israel, I collected bodies.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Alisa Shodiyev Kaff | Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Dyksztejn was living in Kyiv when Russia invaded and vacationing in Israel when Hamas attacked. Dyksztejn volunteered with ZAKA in both the Ukraine and Israel wars. My husband and I spoke a lot of languages and it was mostly tourists in Ukraine asking for help. When the war in Ukraine started, we were in Kyiv. The main difference between Israel and Ukraine was that in Ukraine, I helped rescue people who were still alive.

Persons: Valerie Dyksztejn, Dyksztejn, —, ZAKA, Bet Shemesh, Shemesh, Alisa Shodiyev Kaff Organizations: Hamas, Service, ZAKA, Barzilai, Gaza Health Ministry, they'll Locations: Ukrainian, Kyiv, Russia, Israel, Ukraine, Dyksztejn, Gaza, Belgian, Antwerp, Belgium, Moldova, Bet Shemesh, Bet, Israel's Jerusalem, Ashkelon

☆ Shani Louk's mother says they can't have a 'real funeral' for her daughter because they don't have her body
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Shani Louk's mother told CNN that she can't have a funeral for her daughter because "there is no body." Shani's semi-naked body was paraded by Hamas militants after they attacked Israel on October 7. On Tuesday, her mother, Ricarda Louk, said they can't have a proper funeral for her because they don't have her body. They need to be freed and they need to be freed as soon as possible," Louk told Cooper. Hamas has taken at least 224 hostages since it attacked Israel in October, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

Persons: Shani Louk's, —, Shani Louk, Ricarda Louk, CNN's Anderson Cooper, Louk, Shani, Zaka, Cooper, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu Organizations: CNN, Israel's Foreign Ministry, Service, Nova, Hamas, Israel, Israel Defense Forces Locations: Israel, Gaza, Palestinian

☆ Shani Louk, 23-year-old kidnapped from music festival, found dead, Israel says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Robert Picheta | Rob Picheta | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A 23-year-old German-Israeli woman who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival by Hamas militants on October 7 has been found dead, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said. Louk was attending the festival in southern Israel on October 7 when Hamas breached the border between Gaza and Israel. Shani told her mother she was at the festival with few places to hide. The body of Louk, a dual Israeli-German citizen, was seen on video seemingly unconscious on the back of a Hamas truck after the music festival attack. It was very scary, and we were very worried,” Louk’s mother told CNN in the days after the rampage.

Persons: Israeli Shani, Louk, “, ” “, gunning, Ricarda, she’d, Shani, ” Ricarda, she’s, ”, ” Louk, Daniel Hagari, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Gonen, Romi Gonen Organizations: CNN, Nova, Hamas, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Palestinian Prisoners Locations: Israeli, Israel, Gaza, American, Tel Aviv

☆ Israel’s body collectors encounter horrors beyond their worst nightmares
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Weeks on, as the war continues to rage, ZAKA volunteers are still collecting remains. The aftermath of the attack is so gruesome that only the most experienced ZAKA volunteers are allowed to take part in body collection. On Friday, he and other ZAKA volunteers were combing through homes in Be’eri for the second time, finding more victims and collecting remains left behind during their first visit. As ZAKA volunteers worked in Be’eri, several busloads of foreign journalists arrived, escorted by the IDF. Most ZAKA volunteers say that they haven’t begun to process the trauma, and when they can step away, they don’t want to think.

Persons: Ashdod CNN — Yanir Ishay, “, ”, Ishay, –, Israel, Ronaldo Schemidt, Snir, ” Elmalih, God, Moses, Elmalih, Yossi Landau, Landau, Snir Elmalih, Ivana Kottasová, CNN “, Eli Landau, Yossi’s, ” Eli Landau, ZAKA, Eli, Ivana Kottasova, CNN ZAKA, Yanir Ishay, Yitzhak Ben, Shibrit, Aharon, ” Aharon Ben, ” Ishay, ” Yitzhak Ben Organizations: Ashdod CNN —, CNN, Palestinian Ministry of Health, Volunteers, Getty, Israel Defense Forces, Hamas Locations: Israel's, Gaza, Ashdod, Israel, Ramallah, Weeks, Be'eri, AFP, Ashkelon, Be’eri

☆ Hamas militants ate family's lunch as they tortured and mutilated parents and 2 young children, says an Israeli emergency responder
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An Israeli emergency responder said he found a young family of four mutilated in their home. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . They have uncovered evidence of torture and rape among the victims of last week's Hamas terrorist attacks on communities surrounding the Gaza Strip. The unprecedented Hamas attacks on October 7, dubbed "Operation Al-Aqsa Flood" by Hamas' military leadership, killed at least 1,400 Israelis, per Reuters.

Persons: —, Yossi Landau, Kibbutz Be'eri, Landau, Fingers, Be'eri Organizations: Service, Kibbutz, CNN, Hamas, Reuters Locations: Israel, Gaza

☆ Brother determined to find sister missing after kibbutz raid
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Her husband Alon and toddler made it back to the kibbutz after hiding in the woods for 12 hours, her brother Gili Roman said on Friday. Roman-Gat, a 35-year-old dual Israeli-German national, had left Kibbutz Be'eri a month ago, fearful of the region's insecurity and had only returned there for a Sabbath visit the day before the raid, Roman said. On Friday, Roman surveyed the wreckage of the family home in Kibbutz Be'eri, an agricultural kibbutz 3 miles (5 km) from Gaza, which was one of the first towns hit in Hamas' attack. The Israeli military said it killed dozens of Hamas gunmen in the Be'eri area. "We are talking about our family, three women captured, in captivity, held hostage by the terrorist regime in Gaza," Roman said, adding relatives and friends had been searching for them since the attack.

Persons: Gat, Geffen, Alon, Gili Roman, Be'eri, Roman, Yarden, Zaka, Christophe Van Der, Alison Williams, Rod Nickel Organizations: Saturday, Gaza, Reuters, Thomson Locations: BE'ERI, Israel, Gaza, Beeri, Kibbutz Be'eri, kibbutzes, Be'eri

☆ IDF says it won't back up its claim that Hamas decapitated babies in Israel because it is 'disrespectful for the dead'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The IDF said it won't investigate its claim that Hamas killed and decapitated babies at a kibbutz. AdvertisementAdvertisementA spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces told Insider that the military won't seek further evidence for its claim that Hamas decapitated babies in Israel. On Tuesday, Dinar told Insider that babies' bodies had been found at the Kfar Aza kibbutz, and that some had been decapitated. AdvertisementAdvertisementHe said then that the IDF would not confirm the exact number of babies killed or how many had been beheaded. CBS News later reported that Israeli body-recovery teams had discovered beheaded babies and children in kibbutzim in southern Israel.

Persons: —, Nir, Aza, i24News, Nicole Zedeck, Laura Cellier, Yossi Landau, Zaka, CNN's Nic Robertson, I'm, David Ben Zion, i24NEWS, Ben Zion, it's, Itai, Kfar Aza Organizations: Service, Israel Defense Forces, IDF, CBS, Anadolu Agency, BBC News, CNN, New York Times, Palestinian Ministry of Health, Ministry of Defense Locations: Israel, Kfar Aza, Zaka, Turkish, Gaza

☆ A volunteer in Israel says the Gaza region looks like the set of a horror movie now, with 'burnt-out cars' and 'bodies strewn all across the road'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A volunteer in Israel says the region around Gaza now resembles a horror movie set. Josh Wander told The Daily Beast he is working to help recover bodies of civilians killed in Israel. "You're literally driving around bodies as you're driving down the main roads there," Wander said. AdvertisementAdvertisementA volunteer working to recover the bodies of civilians killed in Israel says the conflict following Hamas' attacks has transformed the region around Gaza into a scene of continuous horror. "You're literally driving around bodies as you're driving down the main roads there."

Persons: Josh Wander, Wander, —, Clarissa Ward, Ward, It's, Israel, Yoav Gallant, he'd, ZAKA Organizations: Daily, Service, Palestinian, Nova Music, Gaza Ministry of Health, Israel's Locations: Israel, Gaza, Jerusalem

☆ Video shows what's left of desert music festival in Israel, where at least 260 were found dead after Hamas attack
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A video shows the aftermath of the Hamas attack on a music festival in southern Israel. At least 260 bodies were found on the site after Hamas' attack, per the Israeli rescue service Zaka. AdvertisementAdvertisementDrone footage captured the trail of destruction left by Hamas' deadly invasion of the site of a music festival venue, which killed at least 260 people. The widely-shared video, dated October 8, shows the Nova Music Festival site abandoned, with dozens of scorched, burned cars and skid marks. At least 260 bodies were later found at the Tribe of Nova Music Festival, according to the Israeli rescue service Zaka .

Persons: —, Samuel Oakford, Kibbutz Reim —, RXKgEL4fiT, 817EpG9G3X — Samuel Oakford, Millet Ben Haim, Haim, Gili Yoskovich, Shani Nicole Louk, Akbar, Benjamin Netanyahu Organizations: Service, Nova, Washington Post, New York Times, Hamas, Washington, BBC, Nova Music, Foreign Ministry, Health Ministry, Israeli Locations: Israel, Kibbutz Reim, Gaza, Germany

☆ More Than 100 Bodies Discovered in Israeli Kibbutz
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Anat Peled | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israeli volunteer rescue organization ZAKA said Monday night that it had discovered more than 100 bodies in Kibbutz Be'eri near the Gaza border. “Large teams cleared bodies all day from kibbutz Be'eri," the organization said. "There were weapons everywhere, grenades, and RPGs. We cleared 108 bodies and we are not done yet."

Persons: ZAKA Organizations: Be'eri Locations: Kibbutz Be'eri, Gaza, “

☆ Israeli festival attendees played dead for hours to try to stay alive during Hamas attack
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Festival attendees in Israel played dead to try to stay alive during Hamas' attack on Saturday. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementAdvertisementAttendees of a music festival in Israel played dead for hours after Hamas launched its surprise attack on Israel on Saturday, according to a new report. Armed fighters arrived at the Nova outdoors festival shortly after the attack began, shooting into the crowds and taking hostages. Israeli rescue service Zaka said 260 bodies were recovered from the festival site, but Israeli officials have not said how many were injured or taken hostage there.

Persons: —, Zaka, Israel Organizations: Service, Hamas, Armed, Guardian, Monday Israel Locations: Israel, Gaza

☆ Father of 2 women at Israeli music festival said he doesn't know where they are, fears they are 'lying in a ditch' in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Two women who attended Israel's Nova festival are missing. Their father said he fears they have been raped or left in a ditch in Gaza. About 260 bodies were recovered from the grounds of the Nova music festival, an NGO said. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe distressed father of two women who have gone missing after attending the Nova music festival in southern Israel said that he fears his children may have been dumped in a ditch somewhere in Gaza. About 260 bodies were recovered from the grounds of the Nova music festival, said a spokesperson for ZAKA, an Israeli NGO rescue and recovery organization, according to multiple media outlets.

Persons: —, Uri David, David Organizations: Israel's, Nova, Service, Israel Defense Forces Locations: Gaza, Israel, Urim, Israeli

☆ A woman taken hostage at the Israeli music festival didn't tell her family she was going so they wouldn't worry about her, her mom says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An Israeli woman didn't tell her family she was going to a music festival, her mother told Insider. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe mother of a 25-year-old woman who was taken hostage at an Israeli music festival said her daughter didn't tell her family she was going because she was afraid they would be concerned for her safety. "She didn't tell us anything because she didn't want us to worry about her," Liora Argamani told Insider, adding: "It is very, very hard for me." AdvertisementAdvertisementGoing to that music festival "wasn't even a consideration" for Marciano, she said, adding: "It didn't even cross my mind." At least 260 bodies were found at the site of the Tribe of Nova Music Festival, according to the Israeli rescue service Zaka .

Persons: didn't, Noa Argamani, —, Liora Argamani, Avi Natan, Argamani, Noa, Shlomit Marciano, Marciano, Argamani's, Libby Weiss Organizations: Service, Saturday, Hamas, Hams, Nova Music, Foreign Ministry Locations: Israeli, Gaza, Israel, Hamas

At least one Israeli soldier has been taken prisoner, a new video geolocated and authenticated by CNN shows. A second video, taken afterward, shows a number of different armed men around the tank. Gen. Daniel Hagari said in a statement on television that Israeli soldiers had been killed and captured, and that civilians were also kidnapped. He called any kidnapping a “war crime.”“There are hostages and prisoners of war that Hamas took. Until now, it was known to hold two civilians who crossed the border and were captured, as well as the bodies of two Israeli soldiers.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, yank, –, Daniel Hagari, ”, Gilad Shalit, ’ Hagari, Hagari Organizations: CNN, Israel’s, Israeli Health Ministry, Hamas, Israel Defense Forces, Israeli Defense Forces, IDF Locations: Israel, Gaza, Israeli, Shejaiya, Negev, Beeri, “, Otef

☆ Inzamam expects second stint as Pakistan chief selector to be even better
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Pakistan's cricket playerspay respect to Inzamam-ul-Haq (C) on the fifth day of their second test cricket match against South Africa at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore October 12, 2007. REUTERS/Zahid Hussein/File PhotoLAHORE, Pakistan, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq hopes his second stint as chief selector of the men's team will prove more successful than his first when the team won the 2017 Champions Trophy in England. With the Asia Cup and the 50-overs World Cup looming this year, the 53-year-old would play a crucial role as Pakistan eye continental and global titles this year. "But, I know I can deliver in this role and I will try to do better than I did the last time. "I am delighted that Inzamam-ul-Haq has agreed to head our national men’s selection committee at a crucial juncture.

Persons: Ul, Haq, Zahid Hussein, Inzamam, Zaka Ashraf, Amlan Chakraborty, Lincoln Organizations: South, Gaddafi, REUTERS, Former, Asia, Pakistan Cricket Board, Thomson Locations: South Africa, Lahore, LAHORE, Pakistan, Former Pakistan, England, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Australia, New Delhi

Catalonia, Spain CNN —Standing in his field of stunted, withered maize, Santi Caudevilla is very worried. It’s becoming increasingly hard to make ends meet as crops shrivel through lack of water – or cannot be planted at all. “This is the worst period that we have had for the last 100 years,” Samuel Reyes, director of the Catalan Water Agency, told CNN. Allison Nussbaum/NASA Allison Nussbaum/NASA These two images show shrinking water reservoirs in the Catalonia region of Spain. In April, Spain requested emergency funding from the European Union to help farmers cope with the impacts of the drought.

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