Israeli rabbis work around the clock -- even on the Sabbath -- to count the dead from Hamas attack
Israeli rabbis work around the clock -- even on the Sabbath -- to count the dead from Hamas attack
Israeli rabbis have been working around the clock, even on the Jewish Sabbath, to identify and count the dead civilians and soldiers gunned down in a Hamas attack last week.
Meanwhile bodies are piling up on the streets in Gaza with nobody to count them.
They're being counted. But people are denying the counts because the people doing the counting are from Gaza and can't be trusted, kind of a perfect catch-22. We don't trust you to tell us how many people have died therefore you can't tell us how many people have died.
But when Israel claims to have found "detailed plans" on the bodies of foot soldiers that just so conveniently can be used to justify Israel's genocidal actions, we are all supposed to believe them.
Cause yea a military organization just goes down to Kinkos, prints off their super secret plan, and distributes it to everyone they are sending into battle, ya know, to keep it secret.
Also if they kill everyone, that means no one died and shows how peaceful Israel is.
Having to work on your day off is the worst.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Hundreds of soldiers, women, and children in body bags line shelves of refrigerated trucks, awaiting examination.
“Generally, Jewish law says that you cannot break the Sabbath for a dead person,” said Rabbi Israel Weiss, who is helping lead the operation.
Seeking the final word on their loved ones, families across Israel have flocked to hospitals to give DNA samples in the hope that they can be matched to the bodies at one of several bases around the country receiving the dead.
Her family spent a whole day searching Soroka Medical Center in southern Israel to find her body, only to come up short.
Rabbis have not worked on the Sabbath since 2005, said Weiss, when the rabbinate disinterred graves from a cemetery in an Israeli settlement in Gaza that residents evacuated as part of Israel’s unilateral withdrawal at the time.
Still, the freshly dug graves were visible, illuminated by harsh floodlights to help the military guard nearby keep close watch.
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It's fucking awful when innocent people pay for the price. In emergency situations such as the one described in the article, the need to address and respond to the situation takes precedence over religious law or traditions. The mention of Jewish law in the article is unnecessary in the context.
Bruh it's been over a week please stop trying to gaslight ppl.
A story about rabbis counting the bodies of civilians killed in a major terrorist attack is being down voted by users. If this is something you think needs to be suppressed, you need to reassess your priorities.
Perhaps Israel shouldn't have put so much effort into ensuring Palestinians didn't have access to education and other basic human rights. I'm not into what Hamas is doing or what they've done really ever, but what were these rabbis doing while Palestine was being bulldozed for settlements? What, honestly, was the expected outcome? Decades of grinding them down wasnt making things more peaceful. I don't get it. You cannot blame people for not being sympathetic to headlines like this. You just can't.
Rabbis having to work on the sabbath isn't a new important revelation, it's just a twist to refresh the story of "a lot of Israelis died" in the back and forth propaganda war.
It's not being "suppressed", it's just not news. And it's very one-sided non-news at that.
Emergency takes precedence over religious law or traditions. The mention of Jewish law in the article is unnecessary in the context.
Downvotes don't necessarily mean people dislike the post.
It can mean that they dislike/disagree with what's happening, not that they don't want the post to exist.
I downvoted it because my feed is already filled with Gaza-Israel war news and this is more human interest/niche. Not that people don't need to see it, but it's definitely some overload right now.
I've upvoted many articles on this topic this week -- from multiple perspectives.