A huge military operation to recover a single Israeli body exposes a grim moral paradox: Precise forensics for the occupier, and mass graves and lost identity for the occupied and bombarded.

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To retrieve one body, the Israeli military mobilised a fleet of tanks, drones, and what locals described as “explosive robots”.

They turned a neighbourhood into a “kill zone”, dug up approximately 200 Palestinian graves, and left four civilians dead in their wake.