Gaza Morgue Worker Numbed as Bodies Pile Up Under Israeli Raids
By Saud Abu Ramadan and Caroline Alexander Jul 30, 2014 8:16 AM ET
The sheer number of bodies he’s had to deal with at Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital morgue has numbed Musa Hassan to the anguish.
“I’ve taken hundreds of bodies to the morgue,” said the 42-year-old Hassan, clad in a blue jumpsuit and long black rubber boots. “In the beginning, I felt sad for each body I took to the refrigerators, but after taking so many, it’s become normal. I have carried bodies shredded by missiles and tanks shells, children, women, old men and militants.”
More than 1,200 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in 23 days of fighting between the Israeli army and the Hamas group that controls Gaza, where 1.8 million people are packed inside a 140-square-mile (363-square-kilometer) area the size of Detroit.
Israeli munitions fired from the air, ground and sea at sites across the territory have caused heavy damage, leveling homes and shops where the smell of rotting flesh now seeps out from rubble. The bombardments have also sent at least 200,000 people fleeing their homes, the United Nations says. In addition to the fatalities, attacks have wounded more than 7,000, according to Gaza Health Ministry official Ashraf al-Qedra.
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