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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy

Thousands of bodies lie buried in rubble in Gaza. Families dig to retrieve them, often by hand

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The wreckage goes on for block after devastated block. The smell is sickening. Every day, hundreds of people claw through tons of rubble with shovels and iron bars and their bare hands.

They are looking for the bodies of their children. Their parents. Their neighbors. All of them killed in Israeli missile strikes. The corpses are there, somewhere in the endless acres of destruction.

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