The Olympian · 25 July 2014
CP-2014-041
Morgue performs burial rituals
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ISLAMIC RITUALS IN GAZA BY KARIN LAUB One woman whose The Associated Press husband had been killed in a different airstrike shouted BEIT LAHIYA, GAZA hysterically in the waiting STRIP - In the morgue at a small Gaza hospital, the area Thursday, fighting with anguished cries of those relatives trying to stop her who lost loved ones in from seeing his body.
They Israeli airstrikes fell silent eventually gave in, but she Thursday when Ahmed fainted after Jadallah let her look inside the refrigerator: Jadallah began attending to the corpses, one by one, on Two Hamas policemen his wooden work table. manned the iron door to the With swift, steady morgue, trying to keep down the number of people movements, Jadallah swaddled a toddler in a getting inside so Jadallah could work. white burial shroud and later gently cleaned the LEFTERIS PITARAKIS The Associated Press As he pulled a body from soot-
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"Morgue performs burial rituals," The Olympian, 25 July 2014. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2014-041. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2014-041
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