Truce offers brief window for Gazans to bury dead
- 10 years ago
In Gaza, they stumbled back into their neighborhoods, and took in the devastation.
A 72-hour truce between Israel and Hamas gives Palestinians a brief window to return to their homes and to search for bodies buried under debris.
Soon after the ceasefire was declared, two bodies were found but medics expect to find many more in the days to come.
Residents find entire clusters of houses -- destroyed.
(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) RAFAH RESIDENT, MOHAMMAD ABU RJAL, SAYING:
"We came here in the morning and found destruction everywhere, a mosque, Koran books, decomposed children were found under the rubble after five days, public buildings that used to serve people were destroyed - they want to destroy all the institutions of the Gaza Strip."
The war that started July 8 has been the worst Israeli-Palestinian fighting in two years.
In Gaza City, Peter Maurer, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross toured a hospital that's treating score
A 72-hour truce between Israel and Hamas gives Palestinians a brief window to return to their homes and to search for bodies buried under debris.
Soon after the ceasefire was declared, two bodies were found but medics expect to find many more in the days to come.
Residents find entire clusters of houses -- destroyed.
(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) RAFAH RESIDENT, MOHAMMAD ABU RJAL, SAYING:
"We came here in the morning and found destruction everywhere, a mosque, Koran books, decomposed children were found under the rubble after five days, public buildings that used to serve people were destroyed - they want to destroy all the institutions of the Gaza Strip."
The war that started July 8 has been the worst Israeli-Palestinian fighting in two years.
In Gaza City, Peter Maurer, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross toured a hospital that's treating score