Palestinian bodies are being dumped into ice cream trucks for storage as hospitals and cemeteries run out of space during the war between Israel and Hamas, health officials said.
Horrifying images from Gaza capture the surreal scene of medical staff loading commercial ice cream trucks (with advertisements for cold treats and happy children’s faces) repurposed to contain the bodies of Palestinians killed in the war.
“The hospital morgue can only hold 10 bodies, so we have brought ice cream freezers from ice cream factories to store a large number of martyrs,” said Dr. Yasser Ali of Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir. Al-Balah.
Health officials in Gaza said Israel’s retaliatory airstrikes against Hamas terrorists have killed more than 2,300 people so far, about a quarter of them children.
Another 10,000 people have been injured in the Palestinian territory, and hospitals are struggling to care for the growing number of victims.
Medical staff in Gaza have resorted to using ice cream trucks to transport and store the dead.REUTERS Officials said several ice cream trucks have been ordered from ice cream factories. REUTERS
As the conflict continues to become increasingly violent, with Israel warning hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to evacuate Gaza ahead of an expected ground invasion to destroy Hamas, health officials fear the civilian toll will only increase. grow.
Ali noted that even with makeshift mobile morgues, Gaza will soon run out of means to transport the bodies of the dead.
“Even with these freezers, the number [of the dead] exceeds the capacity of this main hospital morgue and alternatives, and 20 to 30 corpses are also kept in tents,” Ali said.
Ice cream trucks were said to be needed as hospitals and cemeteries filled up.REUTERS A worker pushes the body of a Palestinian killed by an airstrike into the truck.REUTERS
“The Gaza Strip is in crisis and if the war continues in this way, we will not be able to bury the dead. The cemeteries are already full and we need new ones to bury the dead,” she added.
As war threatens the more than 2 million people who call Gaza home as Israel counts down the evacuation window, Palestinian officials have revealed they are now creating mass graves for victims.
“In light of the large number of martyrs inside the morgues of Al-Shifa hospital, whose relatives did not arrive to bury them, signs of change began to appear on the bodies,” said Salama Marouf, head of the Government Media Office.
Health officials said around 2,300 Palestinians have died following Israel’s declaration of war against the Hamas terrorist group, which rules Gaza.REUTERS
“And in light of the continued arrival of dozens of martyrs as a result of the occupation massacres, a mass grave has been prepared to bury approximately 100 martyrs in the emergency cemetery.”
The Israeli government has repeatedly vowed revenge against the Hamas terrorists who rule Gaza after the terrorist group invaded Israel in a surprise attack last week and massacred some 1,300 people.
Among the dead are at least 29 Americans, while at least 15 remain missing, as Hamas also kidnapped more than 150 people during its unprecedented attack.
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