“I have to bury My three brothers and five grandchildren in my lemon garden: I will come back for them. Before he left his home in Beyt Hanun, towards Rafah crossingMohamad al Mosri, 60, dug a mass grave They bury their loved ones there. The violent and lasting Bombings – said the sixty-year-old to the agency Afp – forced him to bury his family in the orchard after they fell victim to an Israeli raid on the city. “The mass grave and my house are in the border area where they invaded tank: The situation is very dangerous. He then adds, worriedly, that he had been told “that the Israeli bulldozers destroyed my house: I don’t know if they left the graves intact or if they were destroyed.”
Due to the now high number of deaths over 11 thousand Since the conflict began on October 7th, residents of Gaza They cannot find space in cemeteries to bury their relatives. So, he explains Shehta Nasser to AFP: “We bury the dead in the public places: as stadiums or on empty lots”. The deceased, he says, “are transported on carts pulled by animals because they ran out of fuel” and the vehicles therefore remain stationary. THE corpsesOnce they arrive at their destination, they are lowered into the large rectangular holes that are divided into two parts. On the one hand, women’s bodies; on the other hand, that of men. The holes are then closed with large metal plates, onto which the earth is finally thrown.
There is someone to do this job Saadi Barakah63 years old who has done this job all his life Undertaker. But despite an entire existence among the dead, he witnesses what he experiences – he tells the Turkish agency Anadolu – “It’s so incompatible with everything that happened before that I can’t sleep.” And eat.” In just one day he says: “I more than 600 people buriedmore than those I have buried in Gaza in the last five years.” And he insists: “I didn’t I have never experienced a crime like this: Most of the bodies are women and children.”
Each hole, he explains in detail to the Turkish authorities, is six meters wide and around 45 people are buried there. While the largest mass grave he prepared contained 137 people, Baraka explained that “it is the only solution” because “there is no more space in the cemeteries and there are not enough gravestones either.” In addition, some NGOs report in stripes you are missing raw material and thatwaterfall which is essential during the Islamic burial ritual. “I can’t sleep because of all the children’s corpses I saw,” Baraka repeats. And he asks, “What is the fault of these children?”
The death toll from Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip has now exceeded 11,074. The data was published by the Ministry of Health, managed by Hamas. The registered victims are in Israel over 1,400most of which were provoked by the attack of the Islamic movement October 7th. While according to theU.N.the number of offset reached Gaza one and a half million people, with a total population of 2.7 million. “What we have seen in Israel and in the occupied territories,” he said Martin GriffithsUN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs – is nothing other than what I would describe as one scourge for our collective conscience.