On November 22, 2023, more than 100 bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli air and fire attacks were transported from al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip to Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip and subsequently buried in a mass grave.

On November 22, 2023, more than 100 bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli air and fire attacks were transported from al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip to Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip and subsequently buried in a mass grave. According to the Gaza Strip Authority, at least 20,424 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, when the Israel-Hamas war broke out, through November 22.

　At a cemetery in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, dozens of unidentified bodies were buried in a mass grave on November 22. The bodies, wrapped in blue sheets, were placed on stretchers. Some of them, stained with blood, were lowered into a hole in the sand that was gradually enlarged by an excavator. Some of the bodies were as big as children. The Emergency Committee of the Ministry of Religious Affairs said, "We dug a mass grave for the burials of the unknown martyrs because they had no one to say goodbye to them." He said. The bodies were brought from the Indonesian Hospital and Al-Shifa Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. The Indonesian hospital, located on the edge of the Jabalia refugee camp, was bombed by Israeli forces on November 20. A wounded Palestinian died before my eyes, bleeding. The hospital was filled with the smell of death. The wounded cried out for painkillers, but there was no medicine to give. There is a shortage of body bags.

　The situation was similar at al-Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip city. Al-Shifa Hospital also had about 179 bodies buried in a mass grave in the complex on November 14. This included seven premature babies who died due to incubators that failed to provide electricity; the bodies arrived in Khan Yunis on November 22 and were detained by Israeli forces before the bodies were released at the request of third countries and the UN. Thousands of deaths in the Gaza Strip and the issue of burial shocked many Gaza civilians. Since the beginning of the war, the war dead have been hastily buried on private property and even on soccer fields.

The bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes are buried in a mass grave after they were transported from al-Shifa Hospital to Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on November 22, 2023. The Government Media Office in Gaza says that at least 20,424 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli offensive in Gaza since October 7. [Mohammed Salem/Reuters]