In a burnt house without a roof Kibbutz Beeri, Israeli archaeological groups They sift through the ashes and debris in search of human remains with the aim of identify victims who are still missing after an attack by an Islamist group Hamas.

Be’eri is one of the communities attacked by armed members of the Palestinian Hamas militia who crossed the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip October 7thkillings, according to official Israeli government data, 1400 people and taking for more than 240 hostages.

In Beeri, as in neighboring cities Kfar Aza And Nir OzArmed men shot at families sheltering in their rooms and set houses on fire. They also set fire to cars in Music Festival as a result of which 260 people died.

Rescue teams found charred corpses in several places, but the absence of missing people, despite the passage of time, prompted the Israeli army to call two weeks ago archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (AIA) about cooperation in the search.

They have helped so far identification of 10 victims but official estimates suggest that 25 more people left whose whereabouts remain unknown.

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“We went into burnt houses,” explains archaeologist Joe Uziel, “searching for even the slightest evidence that could help us identify missing peoplewere they personal items as decorations etc. or human remains, broken by heat“.

With the help of soldiers, experts divided the territories into search areas, just as they would do during an excavation, and began to search and sift. “It wasn’t easy,” Uziel added.

“It’s a mixture of feelings: do you want to find something or don’t want to find anything? Because If you find something, it means you have determined that someone is missing.and at the same time, can’t find someone it means that remains in this suspended state of not knowing“.

“No matter how difficult it may be,” he continued, “It’s nice to know that maybe we can provide some help and help these families. “They’ve lost so much.”

(according to information from Reuters)