In the first and critical days of the war, the IDF decided to forego the deployment of hundreds of soldiers specifically trained in the identification and collection of human remains in mass casualty incidents. Instead, the Home Front Command chose to use Zaka, a private organization, alongside soldiers in the Military Rabbinate’s search unit
“We saw a woman, around 30 years old, [and] she was lying on the floor in a large puddle of blood, facing the ground,” said a Zaka volunteer tearfully in an account posted on Zaka’s social media accounts. "We turned her over in order to place her into the bag “She was pregnant,” he added and stopped to take a breath. “Her stomach was swollen, and the baby was still attached by the umbilical cord when it was stabbed, and she was shot in the back of the head. I don’t know if she suffered and saw her baby murdered or not.”
This horrific incident, which the Zaka volunteer alleged occurred in Be’eri, simply didn’t happen, and was one of several stories that have been circulated without any basis. There is no evidence for this incident, and no one in the kibbutz has heard of this woman. A Zaka senior official admitted in a conversation with Haaretz that the organization knows the incident didn’t occur.
The organization has been accused of spreading false information before. In December 2022, Haaretz reported that Zaka had inflated its stated number of volunteers for years in order to receive more funding.
It’s all speculation. My current guess is the 7 October attacks wasn’t a false flag. But the massive exaggerations and lies about what Hamas did that day were by design.
Israel needed to manufacture consent for Genocide by making the world believe they were fighting the worst barbarians ever. Zaka fulfilled that role perfectly.
The irony is that many of the stories Zaka told were atrocities committed by israel against the Palestinians in the past; The Israelis did bake a Palestinian child in an oven and made the child’s father watch