EXCLUSIVE: Israeli morgue worker says horrors inflicted on Hamas’s victims are ‘worse than the Holocaust’ including decapitated pregnant woman and her beheaded unborn child
A volunteer who works at a military base morgue and cleans the bodies of mutilated Israeli soldiers before burial says the brutality of Hamas’s mass murder of innocents is “worse than the Holocaust.”
Shari has the grim task of removing mutilated corpses from body bags lined up on stretchers at the morgue at the Shura military base near Tel Aviv before preparing them as best she can for burials.
The architect and mother-of-four told MailOnline: ‘I heard stories about Auschwitz as a child growing up in New Jersey. But what I have seen here with my own eyes is worse than the Holocaust.’
Shari, who did not want to give her last name to protect her family’s safety, is working with the Israel Defense Forces Rabbinate Corps, which is formally identifying what remains of the remains recovered after their soldiers were killed by Hamas forces. shooters – to give their families the opportunity. Bury them as quickly as possible, as is Jewish custom.
Still wearing the clothes from a long and grueling shift preparing the dead for funerals, she told MailOnline: ‘We wash the bodies and prepare them for burial. We try to give them dignity in death.
Shari (pictured) said she took on the creepy role of sparing younger people from the task of cleaning body parts
Shari and her team spent 12 hours a day cleaning body parts delivered to them by ambulances
She said of the Hamas attacks: “What these barbarians have done to these people is beyond description.”
Nearly two weeks after the October 7 surprise attack, ambulances continue to arrive with body bags containing the remains of both civilians and soldiers.
Thousands were killed in Hamas’ surprise attack on Israeli civilians and soldiers on October 7
‘But what these barbarians did to these people is beyond description.
‘There is evidence of mass rapes so brutal that they broke the pelvis of their victims – women, grandmothers, children.
“I volunteered to prepare the bodies of murdered women so that they would receive the respect they deserve.
“I’m a mom from New Jersey. Twenty years ago I moved to Israel. I’m a normal person.
‘I never expected to be confronted with what I saw.
‘People whose heads have been cut off. Women standing in their nightgowns woke up and shot. Faces were shot away. Heads crushed and their brains taken out.
“A baby was cut out of a pregnant woman and beheaded, and then the mother was beheaded.
Shari and her team help identify the people whose corpses and body parts come to their makeshift facility
The team’s work in cleaning and identifying bodies allows grieving families to carry out funeral rites as quickly as possible
Bodies are stored in large refrigerated containers until someone can examine them
Last night the team was given another 73 bodies to view and identify
‘Women and children burned to charcoal. Bodies murdered with their hands tied behind their backs.
‘My mother and my grandmother are Holocaust survivors. They were the only members of the family to leave Auschwitz alive after being taken from their homes in Czechoslovakia.
“All her brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts were murdered there.
Shari first volunteered two years ago – initially to wash and prepare the bodies of fallen female soldiers. She said she took on the grisly task because she was determined to spare young recruits the pain of seeing death and help victims regain their dignity.
As Shari explained her work, she was flanked by a row of refrigerated containers holding bodies – and a set of blood-stained military stretchers.
A few feet away, funeral directors were working, their faces covered in surgical masks. They hold their heads and sip from bottles of hot water as they take a break during their twelve-hour shift.
Nearly two weeks after the surprise attack, ambulances continue to arrive with body bags containing the remains of both civilians and soldiers.
Some were shot at such close range that they no longer have recognizable facial features. Others are missing limbs.
Colonel Rabbi Haim Weisberg (photo, front) said: ‘We have already identified the bodies of 800 people and we are working on another 500’
Dentist Dr Shir Kishales (pictured) said: ‘If you imagine the worst horror movie ever made, the reality of the injuries to the bodies we see is worse, much worse’
The Israel Defense Forces Rabbinate Corps is trying to formally identify the bodies, and in some cases just body parts, so that families can bury their loved ones as quickly as possible, in accordance with Jewish custom.
Of the more than 1,400 victims of Hamas’ brutal attack on October 7, some 200 were so badly mutilated and burned that they could only be identified through DNA or dental records.
While they wait for examination, the bodies – or body parts – are loaded into the refrigerated containers. But after days of lying in the hot desert sun when they were killed, the rotting process has already begun.
Colonel Rabbi Haim Weisberg said: ‘We have already identified the bodies of 800 people and we are working on another 500.
‘But every day we receive more bodies. Last night we received another 73 bodies.
‘We see evidence of torture and cruelty.
“We have babies whose heads have been cut off. Bodies without hands, without legs, without sexual organs.
“The traditional way would be for a child to say Kaddish (the funeral prayer) for his parents. But here we have entire families where no one will be able to say the Kaddish (the funeral prayer) for them.
“So that’s why we must eliminate the terrorists and destroy Hamas.”
Dentist Dr Shir Kishales added: ‘If you imagine the worst horror film ever made, the reality of the injuries to the bodies we see is worse, much worse.’