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Burying nearly 18,000 bodies during Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, undertaker Yousef Abu Hatab is a witness to one of the worst tragedies in Palestinian history, Anadolu reports. With a hoe in his cracked hand, Abu Hatab, 65, buried the bodies that arrived one after another in the southern city of Khan Younis until the cemetery became so full. Most of the buried bodies had no names, as the graves contained only remains torn to pieces by the relentless Israeli bombing. “We buried the bodies in harsh conditions, in mass graves, individual graves, and inside hospitals, under unprecedented pressure and a high number of deaths,” he told Anadolu. Abu Hatab said he once oversaw the burial of 15 bodies in […]
