Placards indicate the names of the diseased at a makeshift cemetery, parts of which the Israeli army reportedly bulldozed to exhume bodies, in the eastern al-Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City on January 11. — AFP
Placards indicate the names of the diseased at a makeshift cemetery, parts of which the Israeli army reportedly bulldozed to exhume bodies, in the eastern al-Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City on January 11. — AFP

A Palestinian boy walks inside a makeshift cemetary where people killed in Israeli bombing are buried in shallow tombs, in Gaza City’s Al-Sahaba Street, on January 9. — AFP
A Palestinian boy walks inside a makeshift cemetary where people killed in Israeli bombing are buried in shallow tombs, in Gaza City’s Al-Sahaba Street, on January 9. — AFP

Young men sit by the shallow tomb of a person killed in Israeli bombing as bodies are line up at a makeshift cemetery in a residential neighbourhood near Gaza City’s al-Shabiyah district on January 9. — AFP
Young men sit by the shallow tomb of a person killed in Israeli bombing as bodies are line up at a makeshift cemetery in a residential neighbourhood near Gaza City’s al-Shabiyah district on January 9. — AFP

A picture taken on January 11 shows a makeshift cemetery in the eastern al-Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City after it was reportedly bulldozed by Israeli forces. — AFP
A picture taken on January 11 shows a makeshift cemetery in the eastern al-Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City after it was reportedly bulldozed by Israeli forces. — AFP

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Momentary relief

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Zionist zealotry
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