Houthi Rebels based in Yemen Allegedly Launched an Attack upon the Israeli City of Eilat.
The building damaged was apparently a school. No injuries were reported however.
An almost surreal story where Israeli Intelligence Contacted a Gazan Dentist Living in an Apartment Complex and Told Him That the Apartments Would be Struck Soon But They Would Wait If He Could Evacuate the Buildings Beforehand.
‘It is an order from people bigger than me and you, and we have an order to bomb,’ the Israeli operative told the dentist.
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IDF Reports They Are Facilitating the Transportation of over five thousand tons of Humanitarian Supplies Into Gaza recently.
Associated Press Newswire reports that as the Palestinian death toll surpasses 10,000, infection and food insecurity run rampant across Gaza. It's gotten so bad...
AP News said:
Some Palestinians have even vented their anger against Hamas, shouting insults at officials or beating up policemen in scenes unimaginable just a month ago, witnesses say.
AP News said:
A man who was told off by a Hamas officer for cutting the bread line took a chair and smashed it over his head, according to an aid worker in line. In another area, angry crowds hurled stones at Hamas police who cut in front of a water line and beat them with their fists until they scattered, according to a journalist there.
Over the past few night in Gaza City, Hamas rockets streaming overhead toward Israel have prompted outbursts of rage from a U.N. shelter. In the middle of the night, hundreds of people have shouted insults against Hamas and cried out that they wanted the war to end, according to a 28-year-old sleeping in a tent there with his family.
Fistfights break out in bread lines. Residents wait hours for a gallon of brackish water that makes them sick.
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Clearly Identified Palestinian Medic in the West Bank Races Out to an Injured Militant and Rescues his Assault Rifle in the Midst of Combat.
Things have gotten so bad for Gazan medical services that the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza has uhhh Doctors walking around carrying assault rifles.
On the October 7th Attacks...
Reportage on a Claim that Many Hamas Militants Were Using a Stimulant Called 'Captagon' which had been used by other Islamist Militant and Terrorist Groups Before in the Syrian Civil War.
Hamas fighters may have taken captagon, a synthetic amphetamine that U.S. troops have repeatedly seized in Syria while fighting ISIS.
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Interviews with Captured Hamas Militants Giving Accounts of How They Originally Had a Plan of Seizing Israeli Settlements, Holding Them and Their Occupants Hostage and Planting Minefields to Help Defend the Positions But Failed To Do So Due to Counter-attacks. The article also details accounts on how captured militants, sometimes boasting, of killing Israeli civilians with hammers, or that they were ordered to kill children since they would become future settlers and displaying a general lack of remorse for their conduct which one admits was no different from ISIS.
The article also reports on eyewitness accounts of witnessing gang rape perpetrated by Hamas militants and the ultra-Orthodox Zaka Volunteer Organization stating their first responders have found the remains of Women showing the signs of sexual violence perpetrated upon them.
Law Enforcement is also studying over 50,000 collected videos to find evidence of crimes perpetrated by Hamas militants for their upcoming prosecution.
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Article details the Israeli investigation of accounts of sexual abuse and other sex crimes allegedly perpetrated by Hamas on October 7th. The scale of the massacre and number of bodies however limits the ability of forensic analysis needed to properly collect and document evidence of sex crimes, especially now that a month has passed.
Times of Israel said:
Now, a month after the massacre, the window for collecting physical evidence of rape that can stand up in court is closed, said a forensic official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Under good conditions, authorities would have had about a week to collect evidence from bodies if they were promptly found and professionally handled.
But these were not optimal conditions for evidence collection. In the wake of the massacre, resources were overwhelmingly directed toward identifying victims — not their cause of death — a process that is still ongoing. The circumstances of the mass casualty event and the ongoing war contaminated crime scenes, or did not allow for the collecting of relevant evidence. And in many cases, the bodies were in such states of mutilation or decay when found that it was impossible to obtain evidence.
Bodies collected in the field are bagged and delivered to an emergency morgue set up at the Israel Defense Forces' Shura Base, near the town of Ramle. Michal Levin Elad, head of the National Forensic Investigative Division of the Israel Police, spoke with The Times of Israel on October 31 at Shura and said that the base's "prime mission is to identify victims; we were not concerned with how they died or what happened."
Of the 1,400 people presumed killed on October 7, about 310 soldiers and 840 civilians have been identified. It is unclear if among them are the 58 police officers killed, as well. This means that around 200 bodies remain unidentified.
Accounts and Evidence Collected in Most Cases, Doesn't Pass the Forensic Evidence Threshold Needed.
Times of Israel said:
At Shura, IDF Captain (Res.) Maayan, who said she was unable to share her last name, is a dentist and part of the medical forensic team working to identify bodies.
Maayan said on October 31 that she has seen several bodies that had signs consistent with sexual abuse.
"I can tell that I saw a lot of signs of abuse in the [genital region]," Maayan said, using her hand to euphemistically demonstrate. "We saw broken legs, broken pelvises, bloody underwear," and women who were not dressed below the waist, she said.
Ina Kubbe, a gender and conflict scholar with Tel Aviv University, confirmed that these are signs consistent with sexual violence, but that a forensic investigation is required for any formal determination of rape.
"Yes, we have seen that women have been raped. Children through elderly women have been raped. Forcible entry, to the point that bones were broken," said Shari, who asked not to share her last name. "We saw genitals cut off," she added. Shari is part of a special women's unit that prepares female soldiers' bodies for burial after mass casualty events. She, too, is not legally qualified to determine rape.
The IDF has also screened, behind closed doors, a 47-minute compilation of raw footage from the Hamas assault, including a video of a mutilated woman whose undergarments had been removed. There are also pictures and videos uploaded to social media providing additional circumstantial evidence supporting rape claims.
The article also states that in interrogations of Hamas militants, incidents of sexual violence including necrophilia were revealed.
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