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In the death corridors of Al -Shifa Hospital, west of Gaza City, the tragedies do not end when you lose loved ones, but a new journey begins more cruel in searching for them among the bags of the accumulated bodies in the refrigerators of the dead, where the bodies are accumulated in numbers that have no names.
Inside the hospital morgue, there are three “temporary tombs” for the unknown bodies, each of which includes about 140 unidentified bodies, which were recovered from under the rubble or were received after the massacres of the violent Israeli bombing of the Strip.
The medical staff works amid almost non -existent capabilities, in light of the collapse of the health system and a great shortage of cadres and equipment, especially the genetic examination tools (DNA), which makes the identification of the victims an arduous task.
Mona Al -Harazin was able to identify her son weighing inside the morgue through specific details in his clothes and some physical signs, in a scene in which feelings of sadness were mixed with comfort, as she had a certainty of his end after a long and anticipated.
With the limited spaces of burial, the family was unable to funeral in an independent grave, and the reality was imposed by the burials of one of his grandparents, as it became common in the Gaza Strip, so finding an individual tomb is a luxury that is not achieved for many.
Forensic medicine crews work in harsh conditions, and doctors are forced to document hundreds of bodies with the image, number and features, in an attempt to organize the matching process later, although the hope of identifying their owners diminishes with the passage of time and the bodies are analyzed.
Thousands of families in Gaza await news, image, or even a piece of cloth that confirm that the absentee will not return, and the most prominent question is: Who died? But: Where is it now? Under any number, his postponed name is kept for a while.
With the continued bombing and the exacerbation of the humanitarian crisis, the number of missing persons is increasing, while hospitals turn from places of treatment into an extensive arenas of farewell, and an emergency stores for the dead.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has committed Gaza genocide that left about 173,000 between a martyr and a wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing.