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IDF Unit Tasked With Identifying October 7th Terrorist Corpses Suffers Severe Trauma
Translated & summarized from Haaretz by baba
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Originalהם נשלחו לאחת המשימות הקשות במלחמה. חלקם סיימו במחלקה סגורה
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- IDF unit identified October 7th terrorist bodies.
- Soldiers lived alongside decomposing corpses for weeks.
- The mission caused severe, lasting psychological trauma.
- Some soldiers required psychiatric treatment.
A unit within the IDF was assigned the difficult task of identifying the bodies of terrorists killed on October 7th, in order to locate Israeli soldiers and civilians among them. For weeks, the soldiers involved lived and worked alongside the decomposing bodies, sleeping near them, smelling them, and eating in their vicinity. Three years after the mission, the individuals recruited for this identification task are reportedly struggling to recover and return to normal life, with some ending up in closed psychiatric wards.
