Israel investigates Hamas-led massacre: Unprecedented legal proceedings
In a significant post-conflict development, Israel is investigating the massacre carried out on October 7, 2023, by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and its affiliated factions.
This could lead to one of the most crucial legal proceedings in the post-conflict era, as reported by DPA.
Israeli investigators are currently reconstructing the events of October 7 using around 200,000 existing photographs and video recordings, along with 2,000 witness statements. The goal is to initiate legal proceedings against those responsible, as reported by The Wall Street Journal on Sunday.
Israel has identified approximately 800 civilians killed on October 7. According to the head of Israel's forensic medicine center, computer tomography images indicated signs of torture and executions.
Forensic evidence provided to the American newspaper by Israeli officials showed, among other things, that some victims were burned alive. Photographs revealed mutilated bodies, including mutilation of the genital organs of women and men, with multiple signs of sexual violence on the bodies of women and girls.
Former Deputy Attorney General Roi Sheindorf stated to the American daily that Israel has not faced such crimes before, nor has it conducted an investigation of such magnitude, as reported by Agerpres.
Hamas has denied that its militants killed children and raped women, as mentioned by The Wall Street Journal.
The American newspaper reported that it investigated some of the evidence and conducted interviews with the first responders, survivors, victims' families, and forensic experts to document an attack described by the Israeli police chief as unprecedented in its cruelty and systematic nature.
The Wall Street Journal also noted that this is likely the most significant trial in Israel since the trial of Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1961, who was hanged for his role in the Holocaust.
Translation by Iurie Tataru
