This is a genocide, if ever there was one.

> Palestinians say this war 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 unbearable grief. Israeli
> strikes have killed so many people so quickly that they’ve overwhelmed
> hospitals and morgues, making the normal rituals of death all but impossible.

> “We have hundreds of people being killed every day,” said Inas Hamdan, a
> Gaza-based communications officer for the U.N. Palestinian refugee
> agency. “The whole system in Gaza is overwhelmed. People are dealing with
> the dead however they can.”

> Overcrowded cemeteries have compelled families to dig up long-buried
> bodies and deepen the holes. That’s how survivors interred Bilal al-Hour,
> a professor at Gaza’s Al Aqsa University, and 25 of his family members
> killed Friday in airstrikes that razed their four-story home in Deir al-Balah.

> Overflowing morgues have compelled hospitals to bury people before their
> relatives can claim them. Gravediggers have laid dozens of unidentified
> bodies side by side in two large backhoe-dug furrows in Gaza City now
> holding 63 and 46 bodies, respectively, said Mohammed Abu Selmia, the
> general director of Shifa Hospital.

> The nightmare of ending up as an anonymous body piled up in a morgue or
> chucked into the dirt has increasingly haunted Palestinians in Gaza.

> To increase the chances of being identified if they die, Palestinian
> families have begun wearing identification bracelets and scrawling names
> with marker on their children’s arms and legs.

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