ZAKA

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ZAKA (Hebrew: זק"א, abbreviation for Zihuy Korbanot Ason, זיהוי קרבנות אסון‎, lit. 'Disaster Victim Identification') is the name of a series of voluntary post-disaster response teams in Israel, each operating in a police district (two in the Central District due to geographic considerations). They are recognized by the Israeli government. The full name is "ZAKA – Identification, Extraction and Rescue – True Kindness" (זק"א - איתור חילוץ והצלה - חסד של אמת‎). The two largest ZAKA factions are Zaka Tel Aviv and ZAKA Search and Rescue. ZAKA faced insolvency before 7 October 2023. Given the job of retrieving the dead bodies after the October 7 attacks, they started fund-raising on 8 October 2023. By 31 January 2024, they had raised over 50 million shekels ($13.7 million). According to Haaretz, ZAKA's conduct in the aftermath of the attacks was unprofessional, including mixing up remains and spreading misinformation about atrocities that never happened in order to raise money.

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ZAKA is the Israeli volunteer network, most of its members Orthodox Jews, that identifies and collects the remains of the dead after disasters, including the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel. Through October 2023 the opening said members aid in the identification of the victims of terrorism, road accidents and other disasters, and that after acts of terrorism, ZAKA volunteers also collect the bodies and body parts of non-Jews, including suicide bombers. Today the opening calls ZAKA a series of voluntary post-disaster response teams, with terrorism surviving six times in the body. A reader today learns ZAKA responds to disaster generically, not that identifying the victims of terrorism was long stated as its core purpose.

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