- The director of Shuhada‘ Al-Aqsa Hospital: “Some of the cases that reach us have no traces of injury, but they were martyred because their organs have been torn apart by the immense pressure generated by the bombs when they detonated on the homes of peaceful civilians.”
… Tareq Mustafa, who lost his entire family of thirty-three members, says, “My cousin the martyr Abu Ja’far, the martyr Sundos, and her children have all evaporated. Oh, people, we only found bits of hair, a jaw, and small fragments of limbs. After a deep search, we prayed the absentees’ prayer over them without any real remains of their bodies! Seven people, who the Occupation1 was not content with merely erasing from the civil record, but insisted on incinerating them to nothingness with its exploding barrels. Allah suffices me, for He is the best disposer of affairs! Arab rulers, there’s no need for you to open the border or send shrouds, God forbid, the Occupation is vaporizing entire families.”
Do not bury the skull, leave it so we may hit them with it after emptying the bag of remains at its final resting place, after we grind the remaining bones into flour to fill our bread-barren bellies . . . We never know, someone might eat a loaf of bread stained with the blood of their family.
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