Top archaeologists join IDF efforts to identify missing persons’ remains from October 7 assault

Top Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists have joined IDF efforts to identify remains of missing people in homes and vehicles burnt during Hamas’s grisly October 7 massacre in Israeli communities around the Gaza Strip.

According to a morning announcement by the IAA, senior archaeologists have been working for two weeks with the military, directed by IDF Maj. Rabbi Shlomo Hazut, in communities overrun by thousands of terrorists during the shock onslaught last month. These include Kibbutz Be’eri, Kibbutz Kfar Aza and Kibbutz Nir Oz where civilians were murdered in their homes, and Kibbutz Re’im, where terrorists killed some 260 people at the Supernova music festival and set vehicles alight with people in them.

Since the beginning of the joint effort, the archaeologists have managed to find definite evidence of the remains of at least 10 deceased persons who were previously considered missing, according to the announcement.