Where were the dead of Gaza buried?

GAZA: After more than 40,000 people died in Gaza’s 10-month war, Palestinians are struggling to find places to bury their loved ones. Families fleeing repeatedly to escape the invasions bury their dead wherever they can: in backyards and car parks, under stairs and along roads, according to witnesses and footage cited by the AP. With space in cemeteries hard to come by, gravediggers often stack graves on top of each other to accommodate incoming bodies. Few graves have headstones and many are just pieces of rubble. When a body remains unidentified, workers place a plastic plaque on the grave, bearing the date of burial, an identification number and where the body was found. Israel’s invasions have sometimes uprooted graves or forced Palestinians to remove them. During the war, Israel’s military dug up, plowed over, and bombed more than 20 cemeteries, according to satellite images analyzed by investigative outlet Bellingcat. And then, there are the people lost beneath the rubble with no graves to call their own, whose families aren’t sure they’ll ever be counted. “It seems Gaza’s fate is to turn into one big cemetery, with streets, parks, and houses, where the living are merely waiting their turn,” Palestinian writer Yousri Alghoul wrote for the Institute for Palestine Studies.