Israel is investigating the massacre committed by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and other affiliated groups on October 7, 2023, which, according to the American publication The Wall Street Journal, could lead to one of the most important trials in the post-conflict period, dpa reported on Monday, citing Agerpres.

Israeli investigators are currently reconstructing the events of October 7, starting with approximately 200,000 existing photos and videos, as well as 2,000 witness statements, with the goal of initiating legal proceedings against those responsible, The Wall reported in the Sunday Street Journal.

Israel has so far identified about 800 civilians killed on October 7, including 37 minors under the age of 17, six of whom were under the age of five, the quoted publication said. According to the head of the Israeli Center for Forensic Medicine, computer tomography images indicate traces of torture and executions.

Forensic evidence provided to the American newspaper by Israeli officials showed, among other things, that some of the victims had been burned alive. The photographs showed mutilated bodies, including female and male genitalia, and numerous signs of sexual violence could be seen on the bodies of women and girls.

Roy Sheindorf, a former deputy attorney general, told the American newspaper that Israel had never before faced such crimes and an investigation of this magnitude.

Hamas denies that its fighters killed children and raped women, reports The Wall Street Journal.

The US newspaper said it examined some of the evidence and interviewed first responders, survivors, victims’ families and forensic experts to document the attack, which Israel’s police chief described as unprecedented in its brutality. and systematically.

The Wall Street Journal also noted that this is perhaps the most important trial in Israel since the 1961 trial of Nazi killer Adolf Eichmann, who was hanged for his involvement in the Holocaust.