The head of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine speaks with Israel Hayom. More than 100 bodies remain unidentified. It attests to the intensity of the abuse that these people went through: Mostly it was the torching of their homes, in some cases generating more than 700°C of heat and making it effectively impossible to extract DNA from the body. The problem is that many of those murdered were children who had no medical history.

"The State of Israel is in the midst of a war initiated by the terrorist organization Hamas. They will regret it, they are already beginning to regret it," IDF chief says, noting that there are "tactical and strategic" considerations that will determine when ground offensive is launched.