On 7 October, the day Hamas attacked, the Israeli military set up an impromptu morgue of refrigerated shipping containers at the Shura defence base in central Israel to identify and prepare the dead for burial. Of the 1200 people killed that day, authorities said at least 300 were women.
“Often women came in in just their underwear,” said Shari Mendes, a reservist who worked for two weeks at the base helping medics with fingerprinting and cleaning female soldiers’ bodies.
“Sometimes we had people who – we just had a torso, okay – or they were very decomposed or they were mutilated,” Mendes said. “I saw very bloody genitals on women.”
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