Gaza ceasefire reveals full extent of Israeli destruction

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9. From Ayman Mohyeldin

aymanm
4 hours ago · Shejaiya
July 26, 2014 | Shejaiya Cemetery, Gaza. Relatives frantically digging graves in an open lot being used as a cemetery. The stream of bodies was too fast for gravediggers to keep up with number of bodies being brought from nearby hospitals. The graves were being marked with cinder blocks from the rubble of nearby buildings destroyed by Israeli shelling. All that identifies where the dead are buried are the pieces of hand-written cardboard.

aymanm
4 hours ago · Shejaiya
July 26, 2014 | Shejaiya, Gaza. An open lot of land is converted to a cemetery allowing for people to bury relatives. There is no time for proper burials here. Bodies are buried and their graves marked with cinder blocks from bombed out buildings nearby. In the distance, people frantically dig to make more space for more dead bodies. A steady stream of bodies was coming from several hospital so quickly that families had to wait in the shade until their graves were dug up.

aymanm
5 hours ago · Al Shifaa Hospital
July 26, 2014 | Shifa Hospital Morgue, Gaza. Bodies on top of bodies next to bodies. In four hours, at least 81 bodies have been pulled from the rubble pushing the overall death toll to more than 1,000 Palestinians killed since the war began. The smell of decomposed bodies, some who had been rotting there for a week was suffocating making it almost impossible for anyone to breathe without a mask. Hospital workers were barely capable of identifying bodies and were issuing death certificates on the fly and for parents who wanted a cause of death, there was simply no time for proper autopsies meaning few if any will be able to pursue legal recourse against their relative's killers. They had to choose between a full autopsy or laying their loved ones to rest in the few hours of a ceasefire. All of them chose to take their relatives for burial.

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