I am sharing with you an Associated Press release pubished in newspapers today.
One family buried a slain son over his grandfather. Another bundled up the tiny bodies of three cousins and lowered them into the grave of long dead aunt. A man was laid to rest with his brother.
More than two weeks into the Israeli offensive that has killed over 1000 Palestinians, Gazans are struggling to find places to bury their dead. "Graza is all graveyard", said grave digger Salman Omar on Tuesday as he shovelled earth in Gaza City's crammed Sheik Radwan cemetery.
At Sheik Radwan on Tuesday mourners pulled away the slabs of concrete covering graves of long deceased relatives, pushed the bones aside and lowered in the newly dead."You have a martyr. You need an immediate solution"said Omar, 24, "You look for where your grandmother, Uncle, or mother was buried and bury them there," he said.
Even the pathways in the hilly cemetery were filled with graves.The older ones had marble slabs. The newly buried just have a tile.
Is this we want our children to inherit?
One family buried a slain son over his grandfather. Another bundled up the tiny bodies of three cousins and lowered them into the grave of long dead aunt. A man was laid to rest with his brother.
More than two weeks into the Israeli offensive that has killed over 1000 Palestinians, Gazans are struggling to find places to bury their dead. "Graza is all graveyard", said grave digger Salman Omar on Tuesday as he shovelled earth in Gaza City's crammed Sheik Radwan cemetery.
At Sheik Radwan on Tuesday mourners pulled away the slabs of concrete covering graves of long deceased relatives, pushed the bones aside and lowered in the newly dead."You have a martyr. You need an immediate solution"said Omar, 24, "You look for where your grandmother, Uncle, or mother was buried and bury them there," he said.
Even the pathways in the hilly cemetery were filled with graves.The older ones had marble slabs. The newly buried just have a tile.
Is this we want our children to inherit?
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