Overwhelmed morgues, cemeteries and near-constant bombardment have made funerals and grieving all but impossible.
28 Oct 2023
FILE – Palestinians carry a body of a dead child who was found under the rubble of a destroyed house after Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. Palestinians say the devastating war between Israel and Hamas 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 grief. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled, File)
FILE – Palestinians pray by the bodies of people killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in front of the morgue in Deir Al-Balah, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. Palestinians say the devastating war between Israel and Hamas 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 grief. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)
FILE- Palestinians bury the bodies of their relatives, killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023, at a cemetery in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza,Palestinians say the devastating war between Israel and Hamas 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 grief. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa, File)
FILE – Palestinians remove a dead body from the rubble of a building after an Israeli airstrike Jebaliya refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. Palestinians say the devastating war between Israel and Hamas 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 grief. (AP Photo/Ramez Mahmoud, File)
FILE – Palestinians bury the bodies of their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at a cemetery in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. Palestinians say the devastating war between Israel and Hamas 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 grief. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa, File)
FILE – Palestinians bury the bodies of their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at a cemetery in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. Palestinians say the devastating war between Israel and Hamas 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 grief. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa, File)
