Note from DB: I was going to post something about my visit to the South during the lawprof fact-finding mission I attended, by my colleague Adam Mossoff posted an incredibly thoughtful and well-written account of that day on Facebook that sums up what I wanted to say and more. With his permission, it's reprinted below. If want to see the original public post on Facebook with the devastating accompanying photos, click this link.
Day 2 (July 10) of the law professor mission to Israel was incredibly difficult, as we went south to the Gaza Envelope to visit the sites of the October 7 massacres and atrocities: Kibbutz Nir Oz, the Nova festival grounds, the IDF base Nahal Oz, and the car cemetery at Tekuma. We had guides or speakers at each place, and the stories and information they conveyed made the destruction and death of that day that much more real. It is impossible to convey fully in words or pictures the full sense of destruction of homes and cars—the burned-out husks of homes, the bullet holes, the utterly destroyed vehicles. The stories of sadism committed by the Hamas soldiers and even civilian Palestinians who killed Jews with nihilistic glee – babies, children, adults of every age from 18 years old to the elderly. It was psychologically devastating and emotionally draining to see and hear of pure, unadulterated evil. The only thing worse was the 45-minute film of GoPro videos by the Hamas soldiers we watched the following morning.
