With his hands dirty with dust and cement, Nazmi Abu Lehia finishes sealing his father Mohammad’s grave in a makeshift cemetery in Al Mawasi, in the southern Gaza Strip.
The 15-year-old decided to postpone the burial for a day, hoping to be able to take the body to the family plot. “I wanted him to rest next to my grandfather and uncles,” he says. “We used to visit them, read the Quran, and bring flowers. That gave us some peace,” he adds.
But today, that area is within what the Israeli army designates as a “red zone” or combat zone, meaning it’s too dangerous to enter; civilians have been ordered to leave. “Now, even our dead are displaced,” Abu Lehia laments.
His father, Mohammad, 42, was shot by the Israeli army near a humanitarian aid distribution point in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. When he received the news, the best thing the boy could do was find a place for him in one of Gaza’s new public cemeteries, recently created to provide a decent place for the thousands of dead from this war.
According to figures from the Gaza Health Ministry, controlled by the Islamist Hamas movement, Israel has killed at least 57,000 Palestinians in the Strip since October 7, 2023, and the number of injured exceeds 134,000.
In recent months, images recorded by citizens have shown the world bodies abandoned in the streets or chewed by dogs, and, according to humanitarian organizations, hundreds of bodies have yet to be recovered from the rubble. When there is an opportunity to say goodbye to a loved one, it is done hastily, as is the case with Abu Lehia and his family, who pray with the drones buzzing overhead. “We can’t say all the prayers; we just want to finish quickly,” the young man admits.
Typically, Gaza families bury their relatives in plots where other deceased members of the clan already have burials. It’s a form of spiritual and emotional continuity. Furthermore, many people leave very specific instructions about how and where they wish to be buried, and their wishes are considered sacred. But all that has been shattered. Abu Mohammad, Abu Lehia’s uncle, addresses those present: “This will be our cemetery now. It’s not what we want, but it’s what war allows.”
According to the UN, in the last three months alone, more than 714,000 Gazans, or a third of its population, have been displaced. The UN estimates that 90% of Gaza’s population has been displaced at least once since October 2023. The UN estimates that more than 80% of the Strip’s 365 square kilometers are now unlivable, either because they are military zones or because the Israeli army has ordered the displacement of civilians.
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