Burying the dead in wartime

Ali Jadallah posted on social media that he's lost nine family members to Israeli airstrikes.

The photographer in Gaza filmed himself this week as he was driving in his car. Across the back seat, his father, killed in one of those Israeli strikes, lay dead.

"We have no funeral cars, no ambulances," he said. "I'm taking him alone (to bury him). I know people can't attend the funeral. No one can. But please pray for him. He was a decent and beloved man."

Israelis and Palestinians are burying their dead with as much dignity as they can while Israel and Hamas' unpredictable and dangerous conflict intensifies.

Some 1,400 civilians and soldiers have died in Israel, where immediate burial is custom for Jewish people. This means emergency responders have gone to extreme lengths to recover victims from scenes of unspeakable horror, sometimes in locations where fighting is still taking place.

In Gaza, where at least 3,500 Palestinians have been killed, families have resorted to makeshift graveyards dug in empty lots and authorities storing bodies in ice cream freezers as morgues run full.

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