Posted on 10/28/2023 1:09:45 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
It was neither the place nor the time for a proper goodbye, said Omar Dirawi. Not here, in this dusty field strewn with dead people wrapped in blankets and zipped up in body bags. And not now, as Israeli airstrikes crashed around him for the third week, erasing more of his neighborhood and sundering hundreds of families and friendships.
Yet on this October week in Gaza’s central town of Zawaideh, the 22-year-old Palestinian photojournalist buried 32 members of his family who were killed in Israeli air raids last Sunday.
Dirawi’s aunts, uncles and cousins from Gaza City had heeded Israeli military evacuation orders and taken refuge in his home farther south. Days later Dirawi was unloading their bodies from the back of a truck, digging a narrow trench partitioned with cinder blocks and reciting abbreviated funeral prayers before nightfall, when Israeli warplanes screeched and everyone ran indoors.
“There’s nothing that feels right about this,” Dirawi said of the mass burial. “I haven’t even grieved. But I had no choice. The cemetery was full and there was no space.”
Palestinians say this war is robbing them not only of their loved ones but also of the funeral rites that long have offered mourners some dignity and closure in the midst of unbearable grief. Israeli strikes have killed so many people so quickly that they’ve overwhelmed hospitals and morgues, making the normal rituals of death all but impossible.
“We have no time to do anything and no space anywhere,” said 52-year-old Khalid Abdou from the camp. “All we can do is dig a big hole with our hands. Then we throw bodies inside.”
“In Islam we have three days of mourning. But there’s no way can you observe that now,” Abdou said. “Before the mourning ends you’ll probably be dead, too.”
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AP=BS
Leave them to rot in the streets for the carrion feeders.
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Maggots and buzzards gotta eat, too.
Gee AP now speak about the 1400+ Israeli’s who were beheaded, slaughtered, burned alive, raped so badly their pelvis’s broke from their bodies..talk about that but they can’t since they hate Jews
Obviously they’ve mistaken me for someone who gives a crap.
Those poor breeders of terrorists
Same ones dancing in the streets for dead babies
Bomb them
There is also a price to be paid for allowing a political governing body that is really a terrorist organization to rule the land you live in.
There is a reason why refugees of war zones and failed states are often allowed sanctuary.
And finally, when the terrorist organization that governs you politically tells you not to leave a war zone because they want to use you as a “human shield” to protect themselves or to use your death as propaganda...........run with your family as quickly as you can. Huddle against what ever wall far away from the fighting you can find. Spend every Penney you have to get out of the war zone.
Boo hoo.
Stuff the bags into your tunnels and seal them off. There’s plenty of graveyard real estate there for them.
Boo-freaking-hoo!
Gee, I wonder if there was anything that could have prevented Israel from bombing Gaza, I wonder. /s
Gaza was a military fortress controlled by Hamas and was being used to attack Israel. What did they expect would happen, Israel would send them a sharply worded letter?
If any blame is to be placed it is with Hamas and those that support them (which is every individual in Gaza).
Reaping exactly what they themselves have sowed.
I have a solution. Stop supporting Hamas, stop supporting genocide. Then the situation in Gaza will be a lot better.
Dead Jewish babies.
BFD. This and other articles are not going to wring one drop of sympathy for what Gaza brought down on its own head.
That’s actually an excellent idea.
32 dead is a good start.
Sucks to be Gaza.
Here's a memorable (to me) story from Iraq from 2007, As violence falls in Iraq, cemetery workers feel the pinch:
As violence falls in Iraq, cemetery workers feel the pinchHere is the original story via the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20071117015617/http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20071016/wl_mcclatchy/20071016bcusiraqcemetery_attn_national_foreign_editors_ytop.NAJAF, Iraq — At what's believed to be the world's largest cemetery, where Shiite Muslims aspire to be buried and millions already have been, business isn't good.
A drop in violence around Iraq has cut burials in the huge Wadi al Salam cemetery here by at least one-third in the past six months, and that's cut the pay of thousands of workers who make their living digging graves, washing corpses or selling burial shrouds.
-PJ
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