Everything becomes jumbled. The child’s backpack, which is multicolored. A jogging shoe. A shrapnel-pierced steel pot. Glass from broken windows, mirrors, and drinking glasses; pieces of beds, chairs, stoves, and lampshades. pieces of garment scraps.
These final dust-covered, torn objects may serve as markers. They frequently belong to the deceased who are buried close to the debris’s surface.
The director of Emergency and Ambulance Services for the Civil Defense agency in Rafah, at the southernmost tip of the Gaza Strip, Haitham al-Homs, says, “Since the Israeli occupation forces withdrew from Rafah, we have had about 150 calls from civilians about the presence of their relatives’ bodies under houses.”
Ten thousand people are missing, according to the Palestinian health authorities. Where no visible indicator, such as clothing, is present at
