Gazans Lose Tens Of Thousands In War, But Have Few Chances To Mourn

The smell of death is everywhere in war-ravaged Gaza, but people often have little time, or place that is not in ruins, to mourn (Credit: AFP)

Once a day, Umm Omar picks up the phone and calls her late husband, humouring their four-year-old daughter who does not understand yet her father was killed early in the Gaza war.

Little Ella "wants us to call him, to tell him about her day", said Umm Omar, who has fled with her three children to Al-Mawasi, a coastal area teeming with mostly displaced Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip.