GAZA — Health officers within the Hamas-run Gaza Strip have resorted to storing the our bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli air strikes in ice cream freezer vehicles as a result of transferring them to hospitals is just too dangerous and cemeteries are in need of area.
Israel has unleashed the fiercest bombardment on the Gaza Strip to hit again on the Palestinian militant group Hamas after it carried out the deadliest assault on Israel for many years.
“The hospital morgue can only take 10 bodies, so we have brought in ice cream freezers from the ice cream factories in order to store the huge numbers of martyrs,” mentioned Dr. Yasser Ali of the Shuhada Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir Al-Balah.
The freezer vehicles, whose sides nonetheless present promoting pictures of smiling kids having fun with ice cream cones, are usually used to make deliveries to supermarkets. Now they’re makeshift morgues for victims of the devastating warfare between Hamas and the Israeli military.
The Israeli navy mentioned on Sunday it will nonetheless permit Gazans to evacuate south forward of an anticipated floor assault in retaliation for the assaults by eight days in the past by Hamas gunmen, who killed 1,300 individuals in Israel.
Authorities in Gaza mentioned Israeli air strikes had killed greater than 2,300 individuals, 1 / 4 of them kids, with almost 10,000 wounded to this point. Hospitals are operating in need of provides and struggling to deal with rising numbers of wounded.
Israel has vowed to annihilate Hamas after its fighters rampaged by way of Israeli cities on Oct. 7, capturing males, ladies and kids and seizing hostages. That means the Gaza loss of life toll will rise sharply.
“Even with these freezers, the number [of the dead] exceeds the capacity of this main morgue of the hospital, and alternative ones, and between 20 and 30 bodies are being kept in tents too,” mentioned Ali, as he opened the doorways of the freezers to point out the white-shrouded our bodies inside.
“The Gaza Strip is in crisis and if the war continues in this way we will not be able to bury the dead. The cemeteries are already full and we need new ones to bury the dead,” Ali mentioned.
In Gaza City too, authorities had been getting ready mass graves, mentioned the pinnacle of the Government Media Office, Salama Marouf.
“In light of the large number of martyrs inside the morgues of Al-Shifa Hospital, whose relatives did not arrive to bury them, signs of change began to appear on the bodies,” he said.
“And in light of the continued arrival of martyrs in their dozens as a result of the occupation’s massacres, a mass grave has been prepared to bury approximately 100 martyrs in the emergency cemetery.” — Reuters
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
