Gaza: where the earth can no longer contain the dead

Gaza: where the earth can no longer contain the dead

In the heart of Gaza, that city upon which the shadows of war have fallen like a cloak of ashes, the hospital morgue stands as a silent witness, but one that screams. There, where the walls bear the scars of absence, and where the smells mix blood and holy water, another chapter is being written in the story of death, which can no longer find room to embrace. In that narrow corner, the mortuary is no longer just the final stop for the departed, …