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    6 months ago

    It seems like Patten was hosted by ZAKA’s Yossi Landau. If you don’t know who Yossi Landau is, she’s had a strong record of fabricating extreme claims against Hamas:

    Speaking through tears at the Jerusalem Press Club shortly after the attack, Landau described finding a pregnant woman in Kibbutz Be’eri in a “big puddle of blood, face down.” “Her stomach was butchered open,” Landau said. “The baby that was connected to the cord was stabbed.”

    In Be’eri, he said, he also found a family who was tied up, tortured, and executed with a bullet to the back of the head: father, mother, and two small children around 6 or 7 years old. An eye was missing, fingers chopped off. Landau later told CNN, “The terrorists were having a ball,” with Palestinian militants devouring a holiday meal set out by the family. Landau broke down recounting the tale, as a CNN reporter comforted him.

    Both of these reports were later revealed to be false.

    In fact, Haaretz has a lot to say about ZAKA’s role:

    Death and Donations: Did the Israeli Volunteer Group Handling the Dead of October 7 Exploit Its Role?

    The Zaka volunteer group began collecting bodies in the devastated communities of southern Israel immediately after the Hamas attack, while the IDF sidelined soldiers trained to retrieve remains. An investigation reveals cases of negligence, misinformation and a fundraising campaign that used the dead as props