The air is heavy with the smell of death. It’s inescapable, in every corner, and worse with every body taken out of the ground.
Every time they dig, they find more corpses, sometimes in places they never expect. Sometimes they only find parts of a person, or a corpse decomposed beyond recognition.
According to the Gaza government media office, some bodies were found decapitated, or had their skin and organs removed. Children, elderly women and young men are said to be among the dead.
Rescue workers say they found bodies with their hands tied behind their backs, which the UN human rights office said “indicates serious violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law”.
Israel denies it buried the Palestinian bodies, claiming instead that it had “respectfully” exhumed the dead searching for Israeli captives.
There are so many tears at Nasser hospital today and so much pain. It’s hard for me to find the words to describe this scene.
The feeling of seeing someone find their relative is indescribable, the way mothers cover their dead sons in a shroud and accompany them to the cemeteries.
Every sight we capture as journalists we do so silently. We can’t speak, we cry blood as we film. Our hands are shaking so much our cameras lose focus. But we start over and try again.
Moatasim Mortaja is a Palestinian video journalist in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. Over recent days, he has been documenting mass graves uncovered in Nasser hospital, where more than 300 bodies have been discovered since Israeli forces withdrew. On Monday, his video of a woman in grey holding the recently uncovered body of her son spread across social media. This is his descriptions of the scenes at Nasser hospital.
So I’m clear, those rightwing religious freaks are allowed to regularly berate students on college campuses but an anti-genocide movement is where these institutions draw the line?
The utter capitalist depravity of this country to believe that penalizing the homeless is the solution instead of, I don't know, seeking solutions to create truly affordable housing and living wage jobs
"Here are your tortured poets. All from Mahmoud Darwish to Dr. Refat Alareer to Khaled Juma, these are tortured poets. Tortured by longing for a home they can never return to, tortured by the world they were born to for BEING BORN. Palestine, home to the tortured poets department." [@/folkoftheshelf on X. April 20th, 2024.]
Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze as Frances "Baby" Houseman and Johnny Castle in Dirty Dancing (1987) directed by Emile Ardolino.
Me? I'm scared of everything. I'm scared of what I saw, I'm scared of what I did, of who I am, and most of all I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I'm with you.
https://x.com/kufiyyaps/status/1764576506959835236?s=46&t=u6txkK_wesA5sWfNQBQJsA (link to tweet by mariam from gaza on X)
i wish people understood how their complacency and reluctance to mobilise against their leaders who are complicit in this genocide is affecting people. it’s not just the bombs and guns… it’s the siege as a whole. and these deaths those criminal soldiers may not even count in their death count because he “died of medical reasons”.
please share yazan’s story. to anyone reading this… please do something. anything. just make an effort to make sure there aren’t more yazans suffering. please.
ya rabb. this is terrible. they probably won't count his death because they only count the deaths of people who died from bombings and shootings, not of starvation or disease.
March 16th, 2017 marks the 14th year anniversary to Rachel Corrie’s death where she was killed by an Israeli bulldozer that ran her over while she was trying to stop it from demolishing a home of a Palestinian family in Gaza.