____________________________________________ 4 IICC Perspectives Secretary Kissinger quoted President El-Sadat, who said, "There are no more living Israeli POWs in Egypt. We returned all of them in accordance with the agreement." Then Secretary Kissinger added, "I'm sorry to be the one to inform you of this." At this point we knew there was no more hope, and we would have to live with the grim reality. The debriefing of the returning POWs reinforced the fact that there were no living Israeli POWs left in Egypt. They said a rumor was circulated about a locked room in the hospital with more POWs, but when a few of them managed to get into it, they discovered that it was only used to store medications. There were two friends... About two and a half months after communication with my son Israel had been severed, an IDF rabbinate representative came to us and said the Egyptians had returned the bodies of Israeli casualties (KIAs) and they needed our assistance to help identify them. The bodies were being kept refrigerated at Israel's Abu Kabir Forensic Institute, and the Egyptians had also kept them refrigerated. A sergeant from the IDF rabbinate came to collect information that could assist them in identifying Israel’s body. We rushed to collect evidence: dental photographs, a broken-arm Xray from the HMO and X-rays from a stomach surgery he had. We were able to retrieve the Xrays at the last minute as they were about to be destroyed. Captain Israel Mendelson (Malam Archive)
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