“We received notification of live fire,” says a ZAKA volunteer in a new video. The rest of the team sits with him, crouched next to an ambulance, awaiting word from the military that it is safe to emerge.
ZAKA volunteers are still pulling bodies from the ruins in Southern Israel towns. According to the same volunteer, “there are bodies lying all over the street…Bodies in every corner…” ZAKA is working day and night to save these bodies and give them a proper Jewish burial.
Their lives, however, are in danger. ZAKA volunteers now require bulletproof helmets and vests, to protect them from missile shrapnel and bullets. They do their work with bombs exploding overhead, all in the name of the mitzvah of saving Jewish bodies.