12/14/2023–|Last updated: 12/14/202305:55 PM (Mecca time)
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor documented the establishment of more than 120 random mass graves in the governorates of the Gaza Strip to bury those killed in the Israeli war that has been ongoing since last October 7.
Observatory director Rami Abdo said that people in the Gaza Strip have resorted to creating random mass graves in residential neighborhoods, house courtyards, roads, wedding halls, and sports stadiums, in light of the difficulty of accessing the main and regular graves.
He added: “We documented more than 120 random mass graves in which three or more members of the targeted families were buried.”
He explained that families resorted to this option in light of “the impossibility of reaching the main cemeteries due to the blocking of roads, the destruction of infrastructure, and the ongoing targeting operations.”
He continued, saying: “Burial operations face great difficulty as a result of the loss of most or all of the family members. Therefore, burial procedures cannot be carried out. Added to this is the difficulty of hospitals receiving death cases, especially with the cessation of their operations in Gaza City and the north.”
He pointed out that since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza, Israel has committed a large number of systematic mass murders.
Healing crews
On November 12, the crews of the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City buried about 100 bodies of Palestinians who were injured by the Israeli bombing and died inside the hospital, according to a previous statement by the Director General of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Munir Al-Bursh.
Displaced Palestinian families also dug random graves for their members, who were “martyred as a result of the Israeli attack on the compound,” according to eyewitnesses.
Anatolia News Agency also previously documented on December 9 the construction of a mass grave in the market square of the Jabalia Palestinian refugee camp, and between its alleys.
Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who works for Tel Aviv Tribune satellite channel, told Anatolia that he had to bury his father, who was martyred in an Israeli attack on his home in the Jabalia camp, inside the yard of a school affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), because he was unable to reach the cemetery to lay his foundations.
Since last October 7, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza that, as of yesterday Wednesday, left 18,608 dead and 50,594 injured, most of them children and women, according to Palestinian sources, and massive destruction of infrastructure and an “unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe,” according to sources. International.