High Court of Justice blocks autopsies of dead infants from Jerusalem daycare disaster

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-883961 

The High Court of Justice has blocked the plan perform autopsies on the two infants who died in Monday's Jerusalem daycare disaster, ZAKA rescue and recovery said in a Tuesday post to X/Twitter.

"Attorney Dror Shoshayim, Chair of ZAKA's Legal Department, represented the families of the toddlers, and after hearing the arguments, it was determined that no post-mortem autopsy will be performed, while emphasizing the need to preserve the dignity of the deceased," ZAKA's post read. 

The director of Hadassah-University Medical Center, Professor Yaniv Sherer, where many of the injured children were taken to for treatment and observation, told Maariv that the injuries and deaths probably resulted from "some kind of poisoning, with or without a combination of crowding, fever, or dehydration."