From an internal document revealed today (Sunday), it appears that the forensics laboratories at the national headquarters are having difficulty extracting forensic findings from items collected at the various and multiple murder scenes, as published today in Ynet.
This may complicate the legal processes and the ability to prosecute the Nukhba terrorists of Hamas. This complex criminal investigation was assigned to the people of Lahav 433, where they admit that there is a real difficulty in extracting fingerprints from objects such as axes and knives - which were used by the Nohva terrorists forcefully during the massacre. In addition, there is difficulty in extracting findings and fingerprints from the thousands of bullet casings collected from the scenes.
In the document, a senior official in the forensics department describes: "The lab's ability is very limited in developing fingerprints on bullets and bullet casings in particular, and on metal surfaces such as knives and pipe bombs. The main method used in the lab is 'superglue' and dyes. This method has a very limited ability on bullet casings and pipe bombs, and its success rates are close to zero."
According to the document, "the laboratory conducted an in-depth study in order to find a solution for developing fingerprints on bullet casings and bullets, however the tried method has a very low success rate in real cases." In order to bridge the gap, the Israel Police recently contacted laboratories abroad, as well as a manufacturer of systems for producing forensic findings in the UK, in order for it to provide the police with advanced equipment capable of extracting products from the terrorists' belongings found at the various scenes.
The terrorists, including Gazans who also entered to loot the citizens of the country, can be accused of many crimes including murder, rape and other sex crimes, physical crimes, kidnappings, harming the helpless, property crimes, security crimes, and more. In order for the police to be able to convict them - fingerprints and other identification marks are needed.
Now, as mentioned, the police are having difficulty finding them and they hope that the help they will receive from abroad will help them bring those vile Nukhba terrorists to justice.
