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Al Jazeera
Politics
Linah Alsaafin, Ashraf Amra

Mass graves, rushed burials: Funeral rites bypass Gaza dead amid Israel war

People pray over the bodies of the al-Hor family who are laid out in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital courtyard in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip [Ashraf Amra/Al Jazeera]

Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip – It was late Friday night, and 28-year-old Amani al-Hor had just returned home when the missile struck her parents’ home right next door.

Amani had spent a couple of hours there that evening, playing a card game with her cousin to take their minds off the sound of the aerial bombings. She had chatted to her siblings and then taken her four children, who she said were “being a nuisance”, back to their own house.

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