00:00Mahmoud Abu Dalfa walked among the destruction in Gaza City's Shejaya neighborhood in hope
00:07of finding the bodies of his family members who remain trapped under the rubble of their
00:11destroyed house.
00:13The 40-year-old lost his wife and five children, who were among 35 people killed in Israeli
00:18airstrikes on their building in December 2023.
00:23Only three bodies of the 35 were retrieved.
00:26My children and I are still trapped under the rubble.
00:30I tried to get them out of the rubble, but the Civil Defense came and tried to get them
00:38out.
00:39Because of the difficulty of the destruction, we don't have the means to get them out.
00:47It's very difficult.
00:49As you can see, the rubble needs a lot of equipment and technology.
00:56This is Kareem.
00:58He was in the first row.
01:01My wife and my five children, three daughters and two sons, consulted me.
01:09I had three sons, Khaled and Kareem.
01:15After eight years, they fed me.
01:19I did agriculture, I was a doctor.
01:23Finally, God blessed me with three sons.
01:29Then I had a daughter.
01:31Then I had a daughter.
01:33Praise be to God, we formed a family.
01:37They are still under the rubble.
01:43Abu Dhalfa, who used to work as a chef in Gaza before the war, said he hoped to be able
01:48to bury his wife, children and other relatives.
01:52I hope to be able to take them out and make them a grave.
01:58That's what I want.
02:00I don't want them to make me a house.
02:02I want them to make me a grave.
02:05I want to take them out and make them a grave.
02:07Abu Dhalfa, like many other Gazans, was displaced several times during the Israeli aggression
02:13that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.
02:16He now lives in a makeshift tent on top of the rubble near the destruction of his house.
02:21I used to go to work a lot.
02:23My children used to attack me.
02:26My father used to jump around me.
02:30He used to hang himself.
02:32My fifth son used to jump on me.
02:34May God have mercy on them.
02:39My wife suffered a lot with my children.
02:44You know how it is.
02:46They need care.
02:49She was very attached to them.
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