βοΈπ΅πΈ βThis is his baby bottle. This is his toy. And that is his shroud. I want to ask the world: What threat did this pose to Israel?β
Nearly three years after the Israeli massacre at the Al-Taj residential block in Gaza City, families gathered Thursday to bury 105 Palestinians whose remains were recovered from beneath the rubble.
Standing amid the ruins, journalist Mahmoud Haniyeh, whose wife, journalist Doaa Sharaf, and their one-year-old son Obaida were killed in the Israeli attack, held up the childβs belongings.
βI am not talking about numbers,β Haniyeh told Drop Siteβs Mohamed Ahmed. βThere was a neighborhood here, alive with its people. There was a lawyer here, an engineer, a doctor, and a nurse. We are talking about an entire life that Israel obliterated in seconds.β
Haniyeh said his family had spent three years in βan open house of mourningβ while waiting for their remains to be recovered. βThis grief has not healed. This wound has not healed. This mourning has not ended.β
For Haniyeh, the recovery of his wife and son underscored how many families across Gaza are still waiting for the bodies of their loved ones to be recovered from beneath the rubble.
βThere are 10,000 martyrs whose families are waiting for this moment,β he said. βHow long will it take us to reach 10,000?β