As families retrieve bodies, Gaza is running out of places to bury the dead
Twenty-year-old Omar al-Sawhi has to find a burial place for his father, Mohammad, 40, who was shot dead close to the “Yellow Line”, an Israeli-designated military zone in Gaza. Mohammad, from the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, was working at a small roadside stall selling tea and coffee when a bullet struck him in the neck on June 10, killing him almost instantly.
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- Fact 1: Twenty-year-old Omar al-Sawhi has to find a burial place for his father, Mohammad, 40, who was shot dead close to the “Yellow Line”, an Israeli-designated military zone in Gaza.
- Fact 2: Mohammad, from the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, was working at a small roadside stall selling tea and coffee when a bullet struck him in the neck on June 10, killing him almost instantly.
- Fact 3: “A grave was just a stone with a piece of paper bearing the name of the martyr, without the grave being built or properly prepared as it was before the war.” A grave here currently costs about 500 shekels ($167), a sum his family could not afford, so they had to find an alternative.
- Fact 4: After a relative reduction in Israeli violence in Gaza following the United States-brokered ceasefire in October 2025, families began to recover their dead loved ones from the debris of destroyed homes or temporary burial sites.
Twenty-year-old Omar al-Sawhi has to find a burial place for his father, Mohammad, 40, who was shot dead close to the “Yellow Line”, an Israeli-designated military zone in Gaza. Mohammad, from the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, was working at a small roadside stall selling tea and coffee when a bullet struck him in the neck on June 10, killing him almost instantly.
Omar headed to the Zeitoun Cemetery to bury his father and found the graves tightly packed together, many of them victims of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. Many of them are marked with just a stone and a piece of paper attached bearing the name of the deceased, due to a lack of space and the difficult conditions caused by the war. “I stood in the middle of the cemetery and saw so many graves.
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Original source: Al Jazeera
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