Kalamazoo Gazette · 3 August 2014
CP-2014-034
Busy Gaza morgue performs burial rituals for fallen Muslims
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"Spilling blood is not something small." AHMEDJADALLAH A PALES INAN WHO VULUNICERS IO DRESS INE DEAD ALA MORGUE IN GAZA Palestinian Ahmed Jadallah, center, 75, prepares a body for burial at the morgue of Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, on July 24.
Over the past three decades, the 75-year-old Jadallah has dressed hundreds of 'martyrs' - those killed in conflict with Israel.
(Lefteris Pitarakis/AP) BEIT LAHIYA, GAZA STRIP Busy Gaza morgue performs burial rituals for fallen Muslims By Karin Laub The Associated Press In the morgue at a small Gaza hosnial the anouished cries of those who lost loved ones in Israeli airstrikes tell silent wwhen Ahmen Jadallah began attending to the cornses one by one on his wooden work table.
With swift, steady movements, Jadallah swaddled a toddler in a white burial shroud and later gently cleaned the soot-stained face of the child's
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"Busy Gaza morgue performs burial rituals for fallen Muslims," Kalamazoo Gazette, 3 August 2014. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2014-034. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2014-034
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