Remains of 12-year-old Israeli girl found, burned alive by Hamas alongside her twin brother
By Etgar Lefkovits, TPS
The remains of a 12-year-old Israeli girl, burned alive alongside her twin brother and great-aunt in the Oct. 7 Hamas onslaught on southwestern Israel, have been identified by archaeologists sifting through the rubble, family members said on Sunday.
Liel Hetzroni was murdered, together with her twin brother Yanai and their 73-year-old great-aunt Ayala, in the attack on Kibbutz Be’eri after they were taken hostage by Palestinian terrorists, who were then engaged in a firefight with Israeli security forces.
The twins had been raised by their grandfather’s sister after their single-parent mother suffered brain damage immediately following their C-section birth due to a tragic hospital mistake.
Their grandfather Aviya was also killed in the attack on the kibbutz.
Family members held a symbolic, funeral at a temporary resting place at Kibbutz Revivim last Wednesday, burying Liel’s belongings since her remains had not yet been identified.
The family said Sunday that they will inter her remains at her home kibbutz — which is currently a closed military zone — when the survivors of the terrorist rampage are allowed to return.
About 10% of the 1,000 members of Be’eri, facing the Gaza Strip, were murdered during the assault.
A team of about 15 archaeologists, assisted by Israeli soldiers, were called in because even after search and rescue teams scoured several communities, scores of people remained unaccounted for. Some had been burnt to ash. The archaeologists have managed to find the remains of dozens of people
At least 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s attacks on Israeli communities near the Gaza border on Oct. 7. Another 240 men, women, children and soldiers were taken back to Gaza as hostages. Some people remain unaccounted for as Israeli authorities continue to identify bodies and search for human remains.
IDF confirms captured female soldier was murdered
by Hamas inside hospital, not an airstike
Although Noa Marciano was injured during the bombardment, her wounds were not fatal, and a pathology report proves she was killed by her captors.
By World Israel News Staff
IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari announced on Sunday that the captured soldier, Corporal Noa Marciano wasn’t killed in an airstrike, as Hamas alleged, but was murdered by a Hamas terrorists inside Shifa hospital.
According to a thorough pathology report and intelligence information, Noa did sustain a non-fatal injury during the IDF bombardment but was moved from her original spot, taken to the hospital, and killed by terrorists.
Hagari reported, “Noa was kidnapped and kept in an apartment next to Shifa Hospital. During the IDF strikes in Gaza, a Hamas terrorist who was guarding her, was killed.”
Following this, Marciano was brought into Shifa Hospital, and according to forensic evidence, was murdered by her Hamas captors.
Last week, before her body was discovered, Hamas released a video from October 11th showing Noa Marciano speaking to the camera and stating the name of her parents and birthplace. She also can be heard on the video saying that the “bombing isn’t helping.”
The IDF condemned the video as “psychological terrorism” and it wasn’t publicized in news outlets. After Marciano spoke, the video then cut to more recent footage of what appeared to be her lifeless body.
On the next day, the IDF confirmed that Marciano was killed.
Noa Marciano had been assigned to the IDF’s Nachal Oz base and served in the Combat Intelligence Corps 414 unit, which was entrusted with lookout duty close to the border with Gaza.
When terrorists invaded Nachal Oz on October 7th, Noa Marciano, along with some 240 other Israelis, was taken captive by Hamas.
Hamas attempted to blame the death of Marciano on the IDF bombardment and has said they will free hostages if the bombardment stops.
Netanyahu has remained firm on the resolution that he will agree to a ceasefire only if all hostages are returned safely.
In flip-flop, Israel allows fuel into Gaza
After international pressure, the Israeli government backtracked on its no-fuel into-Gaza promise and is letting in 2 tankers a day amid fear of disease spreading.
By JNS
The Israeli government in an about-face has acquiesced to a U.S. demand that fuel be supplied to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
“The War Cabinet agreed to a special request by the United States to provide two tankers a day for the sewage system in the Gaza Strip, which is on the verge of collapse without electricity and without the capability to run the sewage and water systems,” Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said at a Friday night press conference.
“The decision was that we want to prevent the spread of diseases. We don’t currently need epidemics that will harm civilians there or our soldiers. If there is an epidemic, the fighting will be stopped. If there is a humanitarian crisis and an international outcry, we will not be able to continue the fighting under those conditions,” he added.
Hanegbi said that Israel’s security establishment “unequivocally” agreed that the move would not harm the war effort.
On Wednesday, a fuel truck entered Gaza through the Rafah border crossing from Egypt, in the first such delivery since Hamas launched the war on Oct. 7 with its cross-border massacre of 1,200 Israelis.
The Israel Defense Ministry’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit, which deals with Palestinian civilian affairs, confirmed in a tweet:
“U.N. trucks transporting humanitarian equipment from the Rafah crossing into the southern Gaza Strip will be refueled today [Wednesday] at the crossing. This follows a request from the United States administration and is being done in coordination with the relevant security authorities.”
A COGAT spokesperson clarified to JNS that “we would like to emphasize that this refers to U.N. trucks only, not to the refueling of tankers or fuel depots.”
The Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem confirmed to JNS that U.N. trucks were scheduled to be refueled on Wednesday. “We’re talking about humanitarian aid trucks that were refueled at the Rafah border crossing,” said PMO spokesman Eylon Levy.
The United Nations claimed on Monday, as it has several times before, that without fuel for its trucks, its aid operations would “grind to a halt in the next 48 hours.”
On Oct. 18, Israel’s government said, “Israel will not thwart humanitarian supplies from Egypt as long as it is only food, water and medicine for the civilian population” [emphasis added].
But aid agencies and the United States have been pushing Israel to let fuel in.
On Oct. 30, the State Department said, “Fuel is essential to the delivery of humanitarian assistance, the desalinization of water and the provision of medical care, and we want to see it provided for those purposes as soon as possible.”
Israel has expressed concerns that fuel would be confiscated by Hamas for its war effort, noting a report by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) on Oct. 16 that “a group of people with trucks purporting to be from the Ministry of Health of the de facto authorities [i.e., Hamas] in Gaza removed fuel and medical equipment from the agency’s compound in Gaza City.”
The Israeli military also released an intercepted call between Hamas commanders in the Gaza Strip in which the terrorist group talked about transferring fuel from hospitals to its terrorist operatives.
The PMO’s Levy said: “We will of course continue to take all necessary action to ensure that Hamas not exploit the international community’s goodwill in order to rearm and refuel its war machine against us.”
Death toll at Israeli music festival soars to 350
As grisly task of identifying bodies continues, Israeli authorities say dozens were found slaughtered in their cars and then set on fire outside Supernova music festival.
By World Israel News Staff
The death toll at an Israeli music festival hard-hit by the Hamas invasion of October 7th rose sharply over the weekend, after additional remains found near the scene of the festival were linked to the massacre.
According to Israel’s National Insurance Institute, at least 350 party-goers at the Supernova music festival outside Re’im were slaughtered on the morning of October 7th.
That marks an increase of 90, from the previous figure released by the NII of 260.
Authorities said the number of dead at the Supernova festival could rise again, as forensics teams make progress is separating and identifying the remains of victims whose bodies were mutilated and torched by the terrorists during the Gaza invasion last month.
The surge in the death toll at the music festival comes after dozens of bodies found shot and torched inside their cars were linked to party-goers listed as missing on October 7th.
It is believed the victims had fled the music festival, only to be slaughtered by terrorists operating on Israeli roads. The victims cars and remains were then set on fire.
Forty revelers from the Supernova festival were also taken captive to Gaza, authorities say.
A total of 870 of the over 1,200 Israelis who are believed to have been murdered on October 7th have been positively identified thus far.
Search and rescue workers are continuing their efforts to locate additional bodies in the Gaza frontier area, as forensics teams – including archaeologists volunteering to help identify the remains – work to sift through the fragmentary remains of victims burned on October 7th.
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