“Hassan, Hassan, Hassan!” The mother embraces the skull and calls out to it, “I didn’t sleep all night to come look for you, my son.”
This mother embodies the suffering of thousands of families who lost members during the war, as there are still more than 10,000 people thought to be buried under the rubble in Gaza. As soon as the ceasefire began in the Gaza Strip, the families who could return to their destroyed homes rushed back to find their loved ones as decomposed bodies, many with only bones and skulls remaining. This scene is being repeated throughout all of the Gaza Strip, such as the southern city of Rafah, from which many missing people have been extracted as unidentified skeletons.
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