“I wrote my name on my hand and my children’s on theirs, in case we die in a bomb attack and we need to recognize our bodies,” Ahmad Abu Saba’a, 35, told the Turkish News Agency correspondent Anadolu in Gaza. “There are a lot of deaths, especially among children whose relatives were there […]
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“I wrote mine First name on mine and my hand Children on theirs, in case we die under one bombing and there was a need to recognize our bodies,” he says Ahmad Abu Saba’a35, to the correspondent of the Turkish news agency Anadolu a Gaza. “Above all, there are a lot of deaths Childrenwhose relatives they find difficult to recognize.” Israeli bombs, adds Abu Saba’a, “don’t do it Discrimination: They beat anyone, anywhere.”
From the start of the offensive Gaza They also died at the hands of the Israeli army 3700 Palestiniansincluding over 1,500 children, according to the Ministry of Health Hamas. The high number of victims, often unrecognizable, “forced us – explain health officials – to have to dig.” Is together“. A medical source from the hospital confirms her words al Shifa, interviewed by the pan-Arab daily newspaper al Araby el Jadeed. “THE Bodies of dozens of victims They are difficult to identify except by special characters that’s just hers Familys they could recognize it. For this reason – he adds – we decided to do this to bury the bodies of those who are not immediately recognized in a Cemetery “temporarily adjacent to the building”.
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In the last few days the hospital al Shifa It has also become a destination for offset who seek refuge there, often camp outside or are welcomed inside as best as possible. Still those Structures Healthcare from that stripes have been targeted since the beginning Operations. “Four Hospitals – said the spokesman for the Gaza Ministry of Health, Ashraf al Qudra –, they are completely out of order due to the Bombings firmly“. The victims, he added, were “at least 44 health care workers.”
Only he violent bombings They would have caused an exodus of thousands of people moving from north to south. This internal flight of the families is the result multiple loss cases. ZiadThe 35-year-old author of a diary in the English newspaper Gurdian reports in his daily report about two 5-year-old brothers who are lost and left without family members. “To make up for the loss of your own children,” he continues ZiadI read about one in his diary, which was published in the Anglo-Saxon newspaper Mother who wrote their names on the hands of his children and Telephone numbers”.
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The idea seems to have spread quickly. So much so that the first and last name and identity card number written in pen on a Palestinian child’s hand is the image that has been making the rounds on social media in the last few hours and has caught the attention of many.
But if on the one hand there are parents who do not want to lose their children, on the other hand there are those who must recognize them. Ahmad al-Masryliving in GazaHe waits until he can go to the hospital to identify his son’s body. “For the moment I can’t go – he explains to the newspaper Al Araby el Jadeed – because of the danger posed by the street Rafah crossing to al Shifa, where my body is Son I believe they buried them in the temporary mass grave along with those of unknown people. And he concludes confidently: “I hope that I will soon be able to recognize his body.”