
When she looks at dead children, which has been every day, Ilana Engel tries not to think of her four-year-old boy. She should shut herself to personal feelings, she says. But that is something she finds very difficult to do.
Dr Engel, a dental specialist, is among a team trying to identify victims of the murderous rampage when Hamas militants, and their camp followers, came across the border into Israel 19 days ago. The task is extremely challenging because many of the bodies have been shredded by bullets and grenades. Some have been mutilated after death or dismembered with body parts arriving in sacks.