After 15 months of war, families in Gaza face the heartbreaking task of recovering the remains of loved ones trapped under the rubble. The decomposed state of bodies and the overwhelming stench of decay make identification difficult, leaving many families with unanswered questions and unfulfilled grieving processes.
Some Gazan families have returned home to find corpses of loved ones so decomposed, they cannot tell them apart
As they prepared to return to their hometown, Jabalia, in northern Gaza, al-Dibs’s two surviving children kept asking him whether their mother and little brothers might somehow have survived the blast that had trapped their bodies for three months beneath the rubble of the family home.“They’d ask: What if they were still sleeping after the explosion and climbed out later? What if, later on, the Israelis heard them screaming and got them out?” he said in an interview. “Their questions torment me.
Desperate to seek medical help for family members dug out from the rubble, al-Dibs was forced into a terrible choice: He had to leave behind his wife, his two youngest children, his mother, his sisters and his nieces – 14 loved ones in all – beneath the ruins. As the Dibs family survivors fled south to safety, he vowed to return for their bodies. It was a pledge that took months to fulfil.
What they found was worse than they had imagined. Bombings had levelled buildings, scattering piles of rocks on top of his family’s collapsed home. They write the location and any identifying details on the body bags and place inside any belongings they find, he said, then take them to the closest hospital morgue and post descriptions of their findings on social media.
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