Latest news with #AbuKabirForensicInstitute
Daily Mirror
16 hours ago
- Daily Mirror
Terrifying last words of man dragged away by shark in Mediterranean sea
A man was fatally attacked by a shark in the Mediterranean Sea, but before he was dragged away he shouted out two terrifying last words, that were heard by witnesses on the beach After a long day at work, Barak Tzach, 40, stopped at Olga Beach in Hadera, Israel for a swim. He chatted with a friend before entering the water with an underwater camera and snorkeling gear, and his pal warned him not to get into the sea that day. For days, sharks had been circling the shallow waters off the coast of Hadera - and some irresponsible beachgoers had even been feeding the creatures, and pulling their tails. Local authorities issued warnings condemning this behaviour, urging the public not to go near the sharks. Swimming is technically banned at the beach because a shiver of sandbar and dusky sharks had been approaching the beach for years - but members of the public repeatedly ignored the rules, and swam with them anyway. Shiver sharks weigh about 100 kilograms, and get to about 2.5 metres in size, but dusky sharks are even bigger, growing to four metre long, and weighing a whopping 350 kilograms. Barak Tzach had swum with sharks before - his wife later revealed in a Facebook post - but he never fed or antagonised them, and on this occasion is said by witnesses not to have touched them. "When they started to get too close to him, he used the GoPro's stick to gently push them away," his wife Sarit explained. "The fisherman called him back to shore, and Barak started swimming slowly toward him – and then he was attacked." From the beach, witnesses heard him call out his terrifying last words: "I'm bitten, I'm bitten" - before the water around him is said to have turned red, and he was dragged away. Despite the father of four's desperate calls for help, the attack was fatal - and while his wife insisted that he had only got into the sea to "to dive and document the sharks, not to feed them or play with them," the chilling incident shows why bathers are banned from entering the water. Authorities conducted an extensive two-day search looking for the 40-year-old, with Deputy Fire Chief Doron Almashali saying in a statement: "After a day and a half of intensive effort, we have found what appears to be part of the missing person. Naturally, these findings must undergo thorough examinations by the Israel Police and the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute. "We will continue working to confirm that we have indeed found the missing individual. We conducted our search pattern based on careful analysis of underwater currents, and it was precisely in that area where the remains were discovered." Shark attacks in Israel are relatively rare, with Barak Tzach the first person to be killed by one since 1940. There are a couple of theories about why the sharks have been approaching the coastline more and more, with some locals putting the blame on the behaviour of fishermen. "It's no wonder they attacked. There are fishermen here all the time and their hooks injure the sharks, causing them to bleed. That's why they went after people," said one eyewitness. However, other locals claim that it is because of a nearby local power station, which releases hot water into the Hadera river. "Every winter, a unique phenomenon occurs in Israel in which sharks and rays gather at the outlet of the warm waters of the power stations," the Society for the Protection of Nature said in a statement. "In the case of such a fascinating and public-attracting phenomenon, it would be appropriate to take conservation and safety measures for the public, but over the years, chaos has developed in the area."
Daily Mirror
22-04-2025
- Daily Mirror
Israel shark attack: Beasts had 'circled beach for hours' as locals 'not surprised' by mauling
Sharks were reportedly spotted in the water hours before the attack off Hadera, north-west Israel, with locals offering different theories as to what lured the powerful beasts so close to shore Beachgoers who witnessed a horrific shark attack have said they are 'not surprised' after seeing fins circling swimmers for hours beforehand. Human remains believed to belong to a missing diver were discovered today after a rare shark attack unfolded off the coast of Hadera, north-west Israel on Monday. Footage said to be of the incident was shared online in the aftermath, showing a person thrashing around in the sea before the water around them turns a dark red colour. Eyewitnesses on shore are heard shouting and screaming in horror. Now, some of people who were on the beach at the time have said they saw the sharks in the water hours before the attack unfolded - and claimed that local fishermen hurting the sea mammals could have tempted them closer to shore. One eyewitness told Y Net News: "It's no wonder they attacked. There are fishermen here all the time and their hooks injure the sharks, causing them to bleed. That's why they went after people." Another witness told Israeli media that they were walking down to the beach when they heard a man in the sea shouting "I'm bitten, I'm bitten" and waving his hands in the air. He "disappeared" under the waves a few minutes later, they added. Police today began work to confirm whether human remains found in the sea belonged to the missing man, reported to be a 40-year-old father of four. Deputy Fire Chief Doron Almashali said: "After a day and a half of intensive effort, we have found what appears to be part of the missing person. Naturally, these findings must undergo thorough examinations by the Israel Police and the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute. "We will continue working to confirm that we have indeed found the missing individual. We conducted our search pattern based on careful analysis of underwater currents, and it was precisely in that area where the remains were discovered. While some local people have blamed fishing practices for the sharks coming closer to the beach, another theory surrounds the local power station. Sandbar and dusky sharks have reportedly been sighted around this site for decades, which has an outflow that releases hot water from turbines into the Hadera river. On Monday, the Society for the Protection of Nature charity claimed it had called on Israeli government four years ago to restrict human activity around the stretch of coast next to the power station, with large numbers spotted int he area between October and May. It said in a statement: "Every winter, a unique phenomenon occurs in Israel in which sharks and rays gather at the outlet of the warm waters of the power stations. In the case of such a fascinating and public-attracting phenomenon, it would be appropriate to take conservation and safety measures for the public, but over the years, chaos has developed in the area.' It is not known which type of shark species attacked the diver. Shark attacks are very rare in Israel, with no recorded fatalities since the state was founded in the 1940s. Other than an incident in 2013 involving a shark trapped inside a fish cage attacking fishermen, the last recorded shark attack came when the region was under British Mandate, when a police officer was injured off the coast of Tel Aviv.
Saudi Gazette
22-02-2025
- Politics
- Saudi Gazette
Israeli forensic institute confirms remains of hostage Shiri Bibas
GAZA CITY — Israel's national forensic center has confirmed that the body of an Israeli hostage handed over by Hamas late Friday was that of Shiri Bibas, according to Israeli media reports on Saturday. The Red Cross retrieved her body from Gaza before transferring it to the Israeli forensic testing, the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute verified that the remains belonged to Bibas, as reported by the Jerusalem Post andChannel Israeli authorities have not yet released an official statement regarding the identification. Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza had earlier handed over the remains of four Israeli hostages on Thursday, including Bibas, her two children, Kfir and Ariel, and captive Oded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later alleged that Hamas had mistakenly returned the body of another woman instead of response, Hamas stated that an error or mix-up could have occurred due to Israeli bombardment in Gaza. The ceasefire agreement, which took effect on January 19, halted Israel's military operations that began on October 7, 2023. The war has resulted in the deaths of more than 48,000 people, mostly women and children, and has left Gaza in devastation. — Agencies
