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Why Israel is using ice cream trucks to store the dead

FP Explainers • October 16, 2023, 08:57:57 IST
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Health officials in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip have resorted to storing the bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli airstrikes in ice cream freezer trucks because moving them to hospitals is too risky and cemeteries are short of space

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Why Israel is using ice cream trucks to store the dead

Israel is bombing Gaza and the dead are being stored in ice cream trucks. Horrifying photographs from the enclave depict medical staff loading commercial ice cream trucks, which have been repurposed to house the remains of Palestinians killed in the war. Health officials in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip have resorted to storing the bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli air strikes in ice cream freezer trucks because moving them to hospitals is too risky and cemeteries are short of space. Israel has unleashed the fiercest bombardment on the Gaza Strip to hit back at the Palestinian militant group Hamas after it carried out the deadliest attack on Israel for decades. “The hospital morgue can only take 10 bodies, so we have brought in ice cream freezers from the ice cream factories in order to store the huge numbers of martyrs,” said Dr Yasser Ali of the Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah. The freezer trucks, whose sides still show advertising images of smiling children enjoying ice cream cones, are normally used to make deliveries to supermarkets. Now they are makeshift morgues for victims of the devastating war between Hamas and the Israeli army. [caption id=“attachment_13252052” align=“alignnone” width=“640”] The freezer trucks, whose sides still show advertising images of smiling children enjoying ice cream cones, are normally used to make deliveries to supermarkets. Now they are makeshift morgues for victims of the devastating war between Hamas and the Israeli army. Reuters[/caption] The Israeli military said on Sunday it would still allow Gazans to evacuate south ahead of an expected ground assault in retaliation for the attacks eight days ago by Hamas gunmen, who killed 1,300 people in Israel. Authorities in Gaza said Israeli air strikes had killed more than 2,300 people, a quarter of them children, with nearly 10,000 wounded so far. Hospitals are running short of supplies and struggling to cope with growing numbers of wounded. **In graphics : What is Israel’s military strength? What weapons does it use?** Israel has vowed to annihilate Hamas after its fighters rampaged through Israeli towns on 7 October shooting men, women and children and seizing hostages. That means the Gaza death count will rise sharply. Fears of escalating civilian casualties As the battle escalates, with Israel urging hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to flee Gaza ahead of an expected ground assault to crush Hamas, health professionals fear that the number of civilian casualties may rise. “Even with these freezers, the number (of the dead) exceeds the capacity of this main morgue of the hospital, and alternative ones, and between 20 and 30 bodies are being kept in tents too,” said Ali, as he opened the doors of the freezers to show the white-shrouded bodies inside. “The Gaza Strip is in crisis and if the war continues in this way we will not be able to bury the dead. The cemeteries are already full and we need new ones to bury the dead,” Ali said. [caption id=“attachment_13252042” align=“alignnone” width=“640”] People move the body of a Palestinian, who was killed in Israeli strikes, from an ice cream truck where it was kept, as the hospital morgues are packed, amid the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in the central Gaza Strip. Reuters[/caption] In Gaza City too, authorities were preparing mass graves, said the head of the Government Media Office, Salama Marouf. “In light of the large number of martyrs inside the morgues of Al-Shifa Hospital, whose relatives did not arrive to bury them, signs of change began to appear on the bodies,” he said. “And in light of the continued arrival of martyrs in their dozens as a result of the occupation’s massacres, a mass grave has been prepared to bury approximately 100 martyrs in the emergency cemetery.” With inputs from Reuters

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