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An Israeli first responder recalls tending to the body of a baby burnt in an oven
Jewish Telegraphic Agency ^ | BY BEN SALES OCTOBER 31, 2023 5:59 PM

Posted on 11/03/2023 6:27:26 AM PDT by Red Badger

Asher Moskowitz, a volunteer first responder, describes seeing the body of a baby who was burnt in an oven on Oct. 7. (Screenshot)

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(JTA) — It was on the fourth day of the war between Israel and Hamas, Asher Moskowitz recalled, that he saw the baby among the corpses at Camp Shura.

Moskowitz had come to Shura, a military base near the central Israeli city of Ramle, as a volunteer with the United Hatzalah emergency response corps. The base had been transformed into a center for identifying those killed in the Oct. 7 massacre by Hamas, the terror group that controls Gaza, and Moskowitz was soon pulled into the gruesome task of helping to unload and transfer dozens of bodies that arrived there.

The baby came from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, one of the communities hardest hit in the attack. It arrived in a small bag whose contents told a grim story: a tiny body, burnt and swollen, with the telltale marks from being pressed against a heating element.

“They took the baby and put it, literally, in a kitchen oven,” Moskowitz said in a video testimony recounting the assessment of professional staff at the base.

The video was recorded at Hatzalah’s request to preserve a firsthand account of what Moskowitz saw, and it was shared with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Tuesday. The video, one of several recordings of Hatzalah volunteers describing what they saw, had not been made public as of Tuesday afternoon.

“The body hardened and, unfortunately, appeared to have also swollen,” he said. “And really, the heating element of the oven was on the body itself.”

The list of atrocities that has emerged from Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel is so long as to feel endless. First responders and survivors have related stories of burnt bodies, of people tied up and murdered, of partygoers gunned down en masse at a music festival.

But the story of the baby burnt in an oven has attracted particular attention this week for a number of reasons, in addition to the tender age of the victim. The presence of an oven evokes the horrors of the Holocaust in graphic terms, creating a link between the antisemitic genocide of 80 years ago and Oct. 7, which was the bloodiest day for Jews since then.

The story has also drawn attention because it was shared publicly for the first time when Hatzalah’s founder and president spoke at an American political convention in Las Vegas.

“We saw a little baby in an oven,” Eli Beer, the founder and president of Hatzalah, said in a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual conference on Saturday night.

As the story spread on social media, some responded with shock that there were yet more revelations to come about atrocities committed on Oct. 7. At least one prominent Palestinian voice drew condemnation for responding with a joke. And a few people wondered aloud whether the story was true, given that it had not previously been reported.

The Israeli government has been engaged in efforts to head off or refute claims that the massacre and its attendant atrocities were fabricated or exaggerated. In the days after the massacre, Israel invited foreign journalists to tour Kfar Aza and other ravaged communities, and last week, it showed them 43 minutes of raw footage from Oct. 7 to counter what a government spokesperson called “a Holocaust denial-like phenomenon evolving in real time.”

Beer said he’s aware that people are denying that the atrocities took place, or are casting doubt on their scale — something he considers akin to Holocaust denial given the depth and breadth of evidence. But he said he had “not at all” worried about people denying this story because of the time that had elapsed since Oct. 7.

“I wasn’t concerned,” he said. “I don’t understand why people think this is the worst. This is not even the worst. Why is an oven the worst? Why is [it] not murdering children in front of their parents?”

Destruction caused by Hamas in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, Oct. 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

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Speaking to JTA on Tuesday, Beer said he learned of the atrocity from at least two of his volunteers. He first heard of it soon after it occurred, from a volunteer who was on the scene on Oct. 8 when a team of first responders discovered the baby’s body, along with the bodies of the murdered parents. Moskowitz then called Beer “a day or two” after he saw the body at Shura.

That story was swirling in his head, Beer said, along with hundreds of others, as the days went by and more victims were identified. While that was happening, Beer continued his work with Hatzalah while under Hamas rocket fire. In addition, two Hatzalah volunteers were killed in Hamas’ attack, and many more are suffering post-traumatic stress, he said. His son is serving in the Israeli military.

Only on his trip to Las Vegas, Beer said, was he able to get a good night’s sleep and clear his head a bit. On the day of the speech, he thought of the story of the baby burned in an oven and decided to include it in his remarks.

“I said, you know what, I heard these stories, and people have to hear it,” he said. “And even so, it’s hard to believe that all these tragedies were happening. But it happened. All these bad things happened.”

There is still much that is unknown, and that may never be known, about the baby’s death — including, for now, the child’s name and age. The parents were killed alongside the baby, and the house was torched, Beer said. According to a Washington Post report on Tuesday, Israeli officials have yet to identify some 200 bodies because they were mutilated or burned.

That paucity of knowledge leads, Beer said, to a number of gruesome questions: Did Hamas terrorists put the baby in the oven, then kill the baby as they turned the oven on? Did the baby’s parents hide the child in the oven to keep them safe from the attackers, only to burn as the house was set aflame? When was the baby killed?

“They have many bodies that aren’t identified yet,” Beer said. “Luckily today there is technology that they can do DNA and everything, but what happens when the whole family are murdered?”

He added, “A lot of the stories will never be told because the people that saw it and witnessed it are not with us anymore.”

In his video testimony, Moskowitz also recognized the need to counter denial of the massacre’s horrors.

“In the context of these horrors we need to show the world and tell the world that it is impossible to deny what they did,” he said. “They raped women, they killed bodies, they killed living people. They amputated limbs, cut off heads — horrors that have already been seen. But this is a horror that we must tell the world.”


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: atrocity; babykillers; gaza; godholdthemclose; hamas; hatzalah; kibbutzkfaraza; mightywarriors; oct7; palestinians; sweetlittleones

1 posted on 11/03/2023 6:27:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Thank you. The world must face this.


2 posted on 11/03/2023 6:36:44 AM PDT by .30Carbine
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To: Red Badger

BUMP


3 posted on 11/03/2023 6:53:43 AM PDT by golux
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To: .30Carbine
Then this needs to be required reading in all high schools and colleges.

Every Jew and every American, well for that matter, every European needs to read a true translation of the Holy Quran or Koran.

Then they might understand why this is happening and why it will never stop happening. IMHO these are probably the most accurate translations, and they are FREE.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16955


4 posted on 11/03/2023 6:56:34 AM PDT by Mogger
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To: Red Badger

Back in the 1950s when we first got a TV there was a show named THE 20TH CENTURY narrated by Walter Cronkite. We saw on that show the true horrors of WW II, no holds barred no punches pulled, no censorship. Those programs are now almost impossible to find as we have raised snowflake generations since then.
Even today showing actual photo proof of such atrocities in Southern Israel are hard to find as it appears the news media is afraid to show such things as we saw in the 1950s TV.


5 posted on 11/03/2023 6:57:31 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Red Badger; All

Carolyn confirmed with multiple sources that the story of the baby in the oven is true. She talks about it in this video interview:

‘All the bodies were brutalized’: The truth about the Hamas attacks | The Caroline Glick Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqBHodNC_gU

“Author and Journalist Caroline Glick sits down with Avigail Gimpel - educator, author and burial society member who handled the bodies of the Oct. 7th massacre. With so many claiming that the atrocities are exaggerated or untrue, it is crucial that we hear from someone who witnessed the brutality firsthand. “


6 posted on 11/03/2023 7:03:22 AM PDT by Qiviut (If the genocide was unintentional, they would have pulled the poison vaccines, long ago.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I remember that show as a kid.

We also had a subscription to Time magazine and LOOK, and they had pics of the masses of dead bodies from the Holocaust and all the emaciated survivors when the camps were liberated.

No TV network would dare show those today..............


7 posted on 11/03/2023 7:04:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Kill them all now. There are no “innocents” in Gaza.

None.

L


8 posted on 11/03/2023 7:07:33 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Red Badger

I can’t finish reading this. There is an eternal place for these barbarian monsters, may they will feel the pain this baby felt for eternity.


9 posted on 11/03/2023 7:13:30 AM PDT by lula (Shine the light of truth Lord, confound the deceiver I pray...AMEN!)
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To: Mogger

Of course it will stop happening. Jesus will be be king in Zion. The whole earth will be filled with his glory. Nothing will hurt or destroy on all his holy mountain.


10 posted on 11/03/2023 7:14:44 AM PDT by .30Carbine
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To: Qiviut

Bttt


11 posted on 11/03/2023 7:33:23 AM PDT by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: Red Badger

For those people posting the propaganda that this did not happen then here is your proof that it did happen.


12 posted on 11/03/2023 9:02:34 AM PDT by Revel
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Available on DVD:
https://www.mediaoutlet.com/world-war-ii-dvds-c-1_3_36/the-twentieth-century-with-walter-cronkite-dvd-set-10-discs-p-522.html
I will have to buy a set for my history collection.


14 posted on 11/03/2023 9:43:41 AM PDT by Semper Vigilantis (Evil is dropping it's cloak of disguise. Prepare for battle.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“The Twentieth Century” with Walter Cronkite is available on YouTube.


15 posted on 11/03/2023 9:49:40 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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To: Red Badger
My. God. There is no dealing with these savages except death. Kill them all. How sickening that we have this crispy,pedophile monster in our Oval Office. God be with Israel!
16 posted on 11/03/2023 9:57:56 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Arise and shine,and give God the glory!-A trail cook's morning call.)
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To: .30Carbine
Of course it will stop happening. Jesus will be be king in Zion. The whole earth will be filled with his glory. Nothing will hurt or destroy on all his holy mountain.

Eventually.

But Him showing up in person could be anywhere from in the next minute to thousands of years from now.

That could leave a lot of time for murder, rape, cooking babies, cutting off limbs, throwing LGBTQ folks off buildings, etc.

The Muslims are just getting started.

17 posted on 11/03/2023 2:55:26 PM PDT by Mogger
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