Face masking tape

The aid coordination office is helpful

The amount of time that many have died also hinders the identification process. In the European hospital in young Oman in the south of Gaza, people looking for loved ones among them are still taken to the hospital and lowered in hospital sheets and arranged in white sheets. In many cases, the only option is to find shoes, clothes or other personal effects.

“I’m sure I’ll introduce my Saudi right away, even though he doesn’t have any features and he’s just an older brother,” said 18-year-old Aliones Mahaconiey.

“I will introduce him because I am his father and I know him better than a million people,” he said.

Ashour remains hopeful the suspect will be taken into custody, he said, but he plans to search for the dead every time he finds out. “Whenever they bring the remains I will come,” he said. “And if I see my son I will take him from among the other bodies and carry him.”

Nisreen Shaaban is looking for her 16-year-old son

“I have opened every possible way to look at the clothes he wears, trying to smell his ad,” he said. He was surrounded by human remains. “I feel as if I live in a grave,” he said. “It’s a town of horrors.”

The defense bus of almost 3,000 people has been filled in Browsment, leaving several families from the end. But there is still more to recover from.

“These people should be found with Tuhéla,” al-Shaghnobi, a rescue worker, said. “This work is waiting for us. All we need is a tool and we will do it.”

Muath al-Khatib and Ammad tabash contributed to this report.