IDF blocked their own trained soldiers specialized in this exact use-case from investigating and retrieving the bodies on october 7. The soldiers were not provided with a reason
The IDF let organisations such as Zaka handle the bodies
Zaka made up multiple lies; such as Hamas cutting open the belly of a pregnant woman, putting babies in ovens etc.
Zaka transferred multiple bodies that were already in a bag to a different bag with a Zaka logo, for advertising.
Zaka did a very poor job at preserving forensic evidence
Some additional lines from the article:
More personnel were necessary, but when the soldiers of the Military Rabbinate’s search unit in the north and the Home Front Command’s unit for collecting fallen soldiers reported for reserve duty on October 7, they were told they had to wait. “I have no explanation for why they didn’t deploy [the Home Front Command’s unit] and our people from the north,” says an officer in Rabbinate’s southern search unit.
In another video, which features the same volunteer, he describes, weeping, how he found the burnt and mutilated bodies of 20 children in one of the kibbutzim. He told Haaretz that this was behind the dining hall in Kfar Azza, while in another instance, he said it was in Be’eri. However, the children who were killed in Kfar Azza are Yiftach Kutz, 14, and his brother, Yonatan, 16. Ten children were killed in Be’eri, but at least some were known to have been with a parent and were killed in their homes.