Trucks serve as temporary cemeteries for the victims of the horrific conflict between Hamas and the Israeli forces...
Digital Desk: Health officials in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip have resorted to storing Palestinians killed by Israeli air strikes in ice cream freezer trucks because carrying bodies to hospitals is too unsafe and there isn't enough room in graves. Israel launched the most intense bombing on the Gaza Strip to retaliate against the Palestinian militant organization Hamas for carrying out the bloodiest attack on Israel in decades.
Dr Yasser Ali of the Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah stated, "The hospital morgue can only take 10 bodies, so we have brought in ice cream freezers from the ice cream factories to store the huge numbers of martyrs."
The freezer trucks are typically employed to deliver goods to supermarkets. On the sides of the trucks they still display advertisements featuring happy kids enjoying ice cream cones. At present, they serve as temporary cemeteries for the victims of the horrific conflict between Hamas and the Israeli forces.
The Israeli military declared on Sunday that it will still allow Gazans to evacuate southward in advance of a planned ground invasion in reprisal for attacks by Hamas gunmen eight days before that claimed 1,300 Israelis dead.
Authorities in Gaza reported that more than 2,300 people have been killed by Israeli airstrikes, with a quarter of them being minors, and nearly 10,000 have been injured. Hospitals are straining to keep up with the rising number of injured patients and are running out of supplies.
After Hamas gunmen rampaged through Israeli villages on October 7, killing men, women, and children and taking hostages, Israel pledged to destroy the organization. So, the number of fatalities in Gaza will significantly increase.
"Even with these freezers, the number (of the dead) exceeds the capacity of this main morgue of the hospital, and alternative ones, and between 20 and 30 bodies are being kept in tents too," said Ali as he opened the freezers' doors to reveal the bodies within, which were covered in white sheets.
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