Guns may have fallen silent in Gaza, but families are desperately still searching for bodies.
Palestinian man Atef Jundiya searches for the graves and bodies of his father, brother, and brother-in-law, at Shejaia cemetery, which was flattened by Israeli tanks and bulldozers during the war, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City.Guns may have fallen silent in Gaza, but for Mahmoud Abu Dalfa, the agony is not over. He is desperately searching for the bodies of his wife and five children trapped under the rubble of his house since the early months of the war.
Burials are usually carried out within a few hours of death in Muslim and Arab communities, and failure to retrieve bodies and ensure dignified burials is agonizing for bereaved families. The war in Gaza was triggered when Palestinian Hamas militants attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing 1 200 people and taking about 250 as hostages, according to Israeli tallies. At least 94 of those hostages remain in Gaza.
A UN damage assessment released this month showed that clearing over 50 million tonnes of rubble left in the aftermath of Israel’s bombardment could take 21 years and cost up to $1.2 billion.As hundreds of truckloads of aid flowed into Gaza since Sunday, officials from the Palestinian Authority, rivals to Hamas, held meetings with European officials to arrange to assume responsibilities at two vital crossing points with Egypt and Israel.
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