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I hope I can bring them out and make them a grave. That's all I want from this entire world. I don’t want them to build me a house or give me anything else. All I want is a grave for them - to get them out and make them a grave,
said Abu Dalfa
I know where Ashraf is buried, but his body is with dozens of others, there is no grave for him, there is no tomb stone that carries his name,
he said via a chat app from Gaza CityMy children are still under the rubble. I am trying to get them out... The civil defence came, they tried, but the destruction makes it difficult. We don't have the equipment here to extract martyrs. We need excavators and a lot of technical tools,
Abu Dalfa told Reuters
My wife was killed along with all my five children - three daughters and two sons. I had triplets,
he saidIsrael's offensive caused the death or disappearance of over 5,000 people and injured around 13,000, with more than 200,000 displaced,
Badwan said
The devastation is absolute, affecting homes, streets and infrastructure, making northern Gaza uninhabitable,
Sarhan saidI mean, we have been relieved by the ceasefire, but at the same time, we are still searching for our martyrs and searching for our graves and can’t find them,
Jundiya told ReutersWhen I went into the camp, I teared up, as our camp was not like that, it was the best. When we left all the towers (and) homes were still untouched, and none of the neighbours had been killed,
she lamentedI have been searching and looking for my father’s grave, my brother’s grave and my brother’s wife’s grave, and I can’t find them,
Atef Jundiya, said at the cemetery in Gaza CityWe are cleaning the house, and removing the rubble, so we are able to return home. Those are the quilts, pillows, nothing was left at the house,
said Palestinian woman Walaa El-Err, pointing to her destroyed belongings at her bombed-out home in Nuseirat, a decades-old refugee camp in central GazaI heard the area was hit hard and the house could have been gone, but I was driven by both doubt and hope that it could have been saved,
she told Reuters via a chat appThey (Gazans) are able to return home. ...It's a bit of a stretch of the imagination, I would say, to call it homes, because mostly, particularly in the north, it's mountains of rubble that they find. So they need help with that,
Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the U.N. office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs, told a Geneva press briefing on TuesdayWhat I found wasn't just a house, it is the box of memories, where I had my children, celebrated their birthday parties, made them food, and taught them their first words and moves,
she saidEverything has been devastated — our homes and our hearts,
Qaoud, 32, said as she sat in front of a collapsed building surrounded by rubble
At long last, the ceasefire and hostage release deal in Gaza offer a ray of hope,
António Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, said in a statement on Monday as he urged "the release of all hostages and a permanent ceasefire in Gaza."Everything is destroyed as you can see. Nothing remains,
Asma Qaoud told NBC News' crew on the ground on Monday in what remained of the Jabalia refugee campThe police have been here the whole time, but they were not wearing their uniforms” to avoid being targeted by Israel
said Mohammed Abed, a father of three who returned to his home in Gaza City more than seven months after fleeing the area
We are searching for 10,000 martyrs whose bodies remain under the rubble,
said Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson of the Palestinian Civil Emergency ServicesI have returned to life, my loved ones, ... I am the happiest in the world, to just be,
she wrote ... said Damari, a British-Israeli citizenI used to dream of them every night, and imagine what they were doing. I know the family here were very supportive and took good care of them, but motherhood overcomes all other feelings,
she told Reuters