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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Bel Trew and Nedal Hamdouna

The desperate search for loved ones under the rubble in Gaza: ‘My children ask me every day where daddy is’

In the last few days, Wissam, 40, has seen dozens of bodies pulled from the rubble in Gaza in the desperate search for her missing husband.

The Palestinian mother-of-four has also trawled through 2,000 photos of unidentified corpses killed in the 15-month war – which have been diligently documented by Gaza’s medics – in an album at her nearest main hospital.

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