(Independent-UK) - "We thought we could relax," said Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, leader of the ultra-Orthodox Zaka rescue organization. "We thought the ceasefire had put an end to all this. How wrong we were." As Mr. Meshi-Zahav's bloodstained team was sifting through the wreckage, they found three bodies huddled together. "When we lifted them off," he said, "we discovered a three-month-old baby underneath, alive and well." With so many dead and crippled, he hesitated to call it a miracle. "The victims were members of our religious community. We were rescuing people we knew, family and friends," he said.
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