Woman who worked in morgue on October 7 accuses Starmer of ‘torpedoing’ peace in Gaza

She said if Hamas is pressured to surrender then the war would end and a “true demilitarised and peaceful government in Gaza is the first step toward Israeli acceptance that real peace and security is possible.”

If Starmer issues a statement similar to the following, she claimed, he would be able to save lives of both innocent Israelis and Palestinians: “‘In order for there to be lasting peace in the Middle East I must add a condition to any offer to recognise a Palestinian state. Hamas must surrender and release all Israeli hostages they hold before any negotiations over Palestinian statehood can begin. Hamas cannot stay. They must disarm and go into exile. They must leave Gaza as the first step to ending this terrible war which they started, so that reconstruction and a chance for the citizens of Gaza and Israel to live side by side in peace, can start.’”

As part of the unit in the IDF specialising in the identification and preparation for burial of female soldiers, Mendes was invited in early 2024 to the House of Lords in London to give testimony on what she had witnessed working on the mutilated bodies of October 7 victims.

She described in detail the bodies she dealt day after day for weeks after the massacre. She said women were found with “grimaces, their mouths were contorted, their eyes were open, their hands were clenched.”

She has described a “systematic” campaign by Hamas to mutilate the genitals of women, with a pattern of shooting them in the crotch and breasts, and in the head, sometimes posthumously.

She has also said women were found with bloodied or removed underwear, faces “intentionally” destroyed by Hamas, bodies burned and limbs removed, sometimes resulting in the process of identifying the bodies taking weeks.

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Mendes told the JC that she is “just a regular person” who was prompted to write the letter to Starmer after seeing “horrifying” videos of abused and starved Israeli hostages in Gaza like Evyatar David.

“I think everyone should be writing to Europe’s leaders. They have a chance to save these hostages lives by putting pressure on Hamas,” she said.