Worst of Gaza: Even the dead can’t Rest In Peace!

“Gaza is all Graveyard!” said a gravedigger at a martyr cemetery in Gaza. He is right! More than two weeks of fighting, more than 940 Palestinians dead, more than half of the dead being innocent civilians, and majority of the martyrs being little kids and women. The worst they could get is no peace even after their death!

This is the tragedy of a region in dispute of the modern world. This, my friends, is the present situation in Gaza that people have no place to bury their dead. They are burying dead brothers and sisters in one grave, they are reopening old graves of relatives to bury their freshly dead loved ones.

Just six miles wide and only 25 miles long, Gaza has always suffered from a shortage of burial space. In the present heavy loss of life in Gaza, there are graves everywhere and there are graves on top off graves! "I buried three brothers in one hole. I buried children with their mothers. You don't ask questions: it's just important to find a place and bury them." A gravedigger said.

One family buried a slain son over his grandfather’s bones, another bundled up three little cousins who were as young as 5 months and as old as 2 years and they were lowered in to a reopened grave of their long dead aunt! A dead police officer was buried in his mother’s grave. Such is the peaceful asylum for those who lost their lives in this gruesome war and for them there is no such thing as Rest In Peace!

If only I was left with any strength to write more, but hands are trembling and there are tears that I just can’t stop. These people who suffering in this war, the very beauty of life is being snatched away from their minds. I sometimes think how preciously would the new generation in Gaza hold LIFE dear? Those who haven’t seen the beauty and blessing of life since the day they opened their eyes, how will they ever praise LIFE as a blessing and not call it a curse?