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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Have the college students who support Hamas go over and help the Palestinians they so admire.
More war, more death, glory be to God.
Yet on this October week in Gaza’s central town of Zawaideh, the 22-year-old Palestinian photojournalist buried 329 members of his family...
ZERO pity for the maggots - murderous, deceitful, hate-filled, terrorist animals.
If you don’t like Israel’s peaches don’t shake Israel’s trees.
You can dish it out but you can’t take it.
And he was no doubt cheering the beheading and burning of babies earlier this month.
"making of them a feast for birds of prey and dogs"
Not enough.
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That's the goal, anyway...
If the Hamas surrendered and gave up their weapons, lives would be spared and proper funeral services could occur.
I don’t understand...I thought they celebrate death and destruction?
Don’t start wars you’re not prepared to lose.
Civilians suffer in war. It’s a sad but true reality.
If you are part of a nation committing atrocities and war crimes, you should probably get far from your country while the getting is good.
Did Hamas give decent burials for the 1200+ Israelis they butchered?
Imagine there’s no Palis, No Russians or Norks, No Turks, or Chicoms. No Iranians too. All the world living in peace.
اللعنة، اكتشف. = FAFO
I’ve said for years that Israel should have pushed those two legged cockroaches into the sea. From the river to the sea make it all Islam free!
I’m sure the mothers of all the man who decided to cut off the heads of Jewish babies are reconsidering their brainwashing skills.
the price for living a life of hate
Maybe they shouldn’t have started this war...
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