The bodies of Palestinians killed in the north of the Gaza Strip, who were taken and then released by Israel, are buried in a mass grave in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, in Palestine, on December 26, 2023. AFP Photo
Inside the morgue at al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza, Ahmad Abu Ras first noticed three bodies missing their eyes.In mid-October, the first Palestinian bodies held in Israel were returned to the enclave in exchange for the last of the Hamas-held hostages.A Palestinian in Gaza was searching for two cousins and a friend he lost track of during the war that began on Oct. 7. As hundreds of families inspected the body bags, “the shocks keep coming,” he told us over the phone. According to him, some bodies have large scars: two are missing a kidney and a heart; another, a liver; four others were missing spinal cords. The political backdrop How Israel is attempting to sabotage the second phase of the Gaza cease-fire Seven other corpses are stuffed with cotton instead of internal organs, Ahmad Abu Ras reported, based on what the al-Aqsa...
Inside the morgue at al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza, Ahmad Abu Ras first noticed three bodies missing their eyes.In mid-October, the first Palestinian bodies held in Israel were returned to the enclave in exchange for the last of the Hamas-held hostages.A Palestinian in Gaza was searching for two cousins and a friend he lost track of during the war that began on Oct. 7. As hundreds of families inspected the body bags, “the shocks keep coming,” he told us over the phone. According to him, some bodies have large scars: two are missing a kidney and a heart; another, a liver; four others were missing spinal cords. The political backdrop How Israel is attempting to sabotage the second phase of the Gaza cease-fire Seven other corpses are stuffed with cotton instead of internal organs, Ahmad Abu Ras reported, based on what the...