Israeli journalist Amit Segal has disclosed previously unknown information about the intelligence and operational steps that ultimately led to the recovery of the body of fallen Israel Police officer Ran Gvili, Arutz Sheva reports.
According to the report, about three months ago IDF troops approached the head of the Southern Command seeking approval to extend the so-called Yellow Line to cover a Muslim cemetery where Gvili was later determined to have been buried. The soldiers argued that the area posed a serious operational threat to Israeli forces, and the request was approved.
At that stage, forces carried out activity inside the cemetery without any indication that Gvili might be buried there. While operating in the area, troops uncovered a terror tunnel running beneath the cemetery and subsequently destroyed it.
In the weeks that followed, updated intelligence evaluations increasingly pointed to the likelihood that Ran Gvili had indeed been buried at that location. After a series of coordination and planning measures, authorization was granted for an operation to recover his remains.
On Monday night, the Israel Security Agency revealed that roughly a month earlier, during a separate operation in southern Gaza City, Israeli forces detained a Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative. The suspect had taken part in combat activity against Israeli forces during the war and was brought in for questioning.
During his interrogation, the operative confessed to having been involved in moving Ran Gvili’s body between several sites and provided the names of others who knew where the burial had taken place. The intelligence obtained strengthened assessments that Gvili was buried in the al-Batsh cemetery in the northern Gaza Strip.
The ISA said that this intelligence directly enabled the recovery mission. As part of the operation, forces opened more than 700 graves and examined over 250 bodies before locating Ran. He was found inside a Shifa Hospital body bag, still wearing his police uniform, with his shoes and belt intact.
{Matzav.com}
Muslims don’t bury non-Muslims in Muslim cemeteries.
Best place to hide them because nobody would think they’re there.
Muslims who run Hamas don’t fear G-d.
They use religion to cover up their murderous intentions.
Like all cultures and civilisations, they have people who want power, pleasure and control, not peace. They will stop at nothing to get in.
Murder. Rape. Theft. Lies. Distortions. Media. Public Sentiment.
And they will virtuously blame God, Allah, or whatever they call The Creator for the deaths that ensue. They destroy families, relationships and societies in the name of religion.
Nothing new here.
“…forces opened more than 700 graves and examined over 250 bodies before locating Ran.”
Incredibly gruesome work.
Many remain in complete denial about the effect this kind of work has on even the steeliest people.
Many soldiers suffer from debilitating PTSD at this point, which affects their families too. ZAKA members and others also struggle, but it’s never mentioned.
I’m also glad for the closure of the Gvili family, but military and political elite are burning through people’s bodies and nefashos with all their terrible policies and administration of this war.