By Cyrille Louis
Published 1 hour ago, updated 1 hour ago
On Thursday, in Ramla, at the Shura base-turned-mortuary, soldiers from the forensic service open the doors of a refrigerated container containing body bags containing the remains of children massacred by Hamas militants on October 7. Amnon Gutman for Le Figaro
REPORT – Body fragments are still arriving every day at the Shura base, which has been converted into a massive morgue since the October 7 Hamas attack. More than 1,300 corpses are stored there, often unrecognizable.
Special envoy for Ramla
Night has just fallen at the Shura base in central Israel, but powerful searchlights illuminate the row of stretchers and white tents as if in broad daylight. Soldiers mill about near metal containers, as if lulled by the monotonous hum of the refrigeration system. Each of them, explains Colonel Haïm Weissberg, can contain up to fifty corpses. As two of his men, their faces covered with masks, push aside the heavy doors of one of these improvised cold storage rooms, the terrible smell of death immediately wafts towards us. Inside there are around fifteen body bags waiting to be emptied. “Today, thirteen days after the massacre, we have received 73 body fragments,” explains Colonel Weissberg, chief rabbi of the Israeli army, who is leading the operation to identify the victims and prepare the bodies for burial.
Since the bloodbath of October 7th, this…
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