Yossi Landau, an aid worker associated with Zaka, an organisation which recovers the bodies of people who suffered unnatural deaths, told news agency AFP that he found a corpse of an Israeli woman in Sderot whose belly was ripped open and the baby was stabbed by Hamas terrorists.
He also said that there were some bodies which were positioned in such a manner that it looked like they were sexually abused.
“Her stomach was ripped open, a baby was there, still connected with the cord, and stabbed. We saw some victims positioned that they were sexually abused,” Yossi was quoted as saying by news agency AFP.
Yossi, who has spent decades collecting corpses in Israel, told the news agency that he and his team reached a breaking point recovering the remains of people killed by Hamas terrorists in the country’s deadliest assault.
He said he saw multiple civilians, including around 20 children, who had their hands tied behind their backs before being shot and torched.
It should be noted that Sderot and Ashkelon, towns lying in Israel’s south bordering the Gaza Strip, were the first to be attacked on October 7 when the Hamas terrorist group launched a terrorist attack.
Yossi says that he is now “used to” waking up to the sounds of sirens warning to shelter from incoming rocket fire.
Hamas terrorists have killed an estimated 1,200 people in the last six days.
The resident of Ashdod, a coastal city north of Gaza, recounted the horror he and his team witnessed while they were en route to the town worst impacted by Hamas’ terror attack on Israel.
“I saw cars turned over, I saw people on the street dead. A piece of road that should’ve taken 15 minutes, it took us 11 hours because we went and picked up everyone, put them in a bag,” the man who has 33 years of experience volunteering for Zaka said.
“I felt that I’m falling apart, not only me, but my whole crew,” the volunteer said, recalling first seeing the dead pregnant woman. Yossi said he loaded dozens of corpses onto refrigerated trucks in the aftermath of the attacks.