Report from Jerusalem
In the past 15 months, among the thousands of funerals in Gaza, the mourners have laid bright orange vests in their bodies.
The vest is usually worn, sometimes dust, sometimes blood. They belong to the main emergency service civil defense of Gaza.
Throughout the Israeli bombing, civil defense was responsible for withdrawn from the rubble from the rubble. In addition to Gaza's ambulance service, rescuers also engaged in the most painful work on the street.
They paid a huge price. The agency said on the first day of peace on Monday that 99 of them were killed, 319 were injured, and some were injured.
When the civil defense burys his body, the deceased's vest will be placed on their bodies.
"We put the vests there because our colleagues sacrificed his soul in it," said the 24-year-old rescue staff Nooh Al-Shaghnobi's telephone interview in Gasha City.
"We hope this will show God that this person has done a good job in his life, and he saves others."
According to the Ministry of Health operated by Hamas, Israel killed more than 47,000 Palestinians in Gaza during the conflict-mainly women and children, and injured more than 111,000 people, and their numbers were reliable by the United Nations. The latest research published by Lancet Medical Journal found that the number of deaths in the first nine months of the war may be underestimated by more than 40 %.
The fragile ceasefire last weekend is being held. But for the rescue staff of civil defense, the next stage of work has just begun.
The agency estimates that more than 10,000 people are buried under the rubble in Gaza. The number is based on the information of each building destroyed by Israel in the entire war, and the institution knows people who have been recovered.
In areas where the Israeli troops are completely occupied during the destruction process, they have no detailed information and rely on residents to help them. In the Tel El-Hawa block in Gasha City on Tuesday, the rescue staff Al-Shaghnobi discovered a man, including the fate of the flat apartment building.
"He told us that the seven deceased had been restored, but he had an old gentleman, a child and a baby."
He said: "Fortunately, there is a private bulldozer nearby, and we can dig the top layer of rubble." "Below, we found three bones that match the description."
Al-Shaghnobi shared his experience through social media during the war, thereby giving a huge follower. Although he is some image pixels, others show the horror faced by him and other young rescue personnel.
A video showed him the rubble and carefully out of the body of the baby from the body of another living child. Other images he sent to BBC show the extreme nature of rescue work.
AL-SHAGNOBI said in a transition in Gasha City: "Over time, you should become numb." "But I became worse. I saw 50 colleagues in front of me.
Last week, Israel's first hostage was released from Gaza in exchange for 90 Palestinian people from Israeli prisons. The Israeli authorities described the extensive psychological support waiting to return to hostages.
But for those who are horrible in Gaza, this support is extremely limited. The four rescuers who talked to Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) this week did not say that they had been consulted.
"We need this, but no one talks about it," said Mohammed Lafi, a 25 -year -old rescue person in Gasha City, said.
Lafi, who has worked at the agency for six years, has a wife and baby son at home. "When I pulled my body from the rubble, if he and his son were the same age, my body was shaking."
Even if you want to provide a wide range of consultations, "one year of treatment is not enough to complete this work," said Abdullah Al-Majdalawi, saying that he is a 24-year-old people Preventing staff, he and his parents live in Gaza.
Al-MAJDALAWI said that when he returned home between the shifts, he kept doing small jobs and trivial matters, "because I was afraid of my memories."
He said, "I'm very lonely now." "I am not really talking about what I see with others. But I think my entire body becomes tight, and I need some kind of therapy because things are accumulating. "
Al-Majdalawi said civil defense personnel have been viewed from the outside. "But they can't see what happened inside. I am fighting internally internally."
At the beginning of the ceasefire, the new images from Gasha showed almost completely damaged scenes, especially in the north of Flying. Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud base said that the agency hopes to restore the remaining death from the ruins within 100 days, but he acknowledges that it is a difficult goal because they have almost no bulldozer and other heavy equipment.
Civil Defense Metal Israel deliberately target and destroy its vehicle and equipment strike-Israel denied this allegations. Rescuers told Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) they are currently using simple manual tools such as hammers, and there are very few vehicles. "Our equipment is very small, and we need another civil defense to save civil defense."
A spokesman for the agency said on Friday that since the beginning of the ceasefire, they can only restore 162 corpses.
The United Nations Aid Coordination Office OCHA warned that due to the lack of equipment, the personnel and their estimated 37 million tons of gravel, the recovery of the corpse may take several years to take years.
The time of many deceased has hindered the identification process. In European hospitals in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, people are looking for loved ones this week. The remains are brought to the hospital and lying on the white sheets outside. In many cases, the only choice is to find shoes, clothes or other personal effects.
"I believe I will recognize my son immediately, even if his face has no characteristics, he is just a bone." His 18 -year -old boy Mahjoud's university professor Ali Ashour said.
He said: "I will recognize him because I am his father, and I know him better than one million people."
He said Ashour still hopes that Mahjoud may be captured, but he plans to search the deceased every day until he knows. He said: "Whenever they bring more remains, I will come." "If I see my son, I will raise him from other corpses, and then take him away."
Nisreen Shaaban is looking for her 16 -year -old son Moatassem. She said that she had left their home in Beit Hanoun for 15 minutes and never returned.
She said: "I opened every corpse cloth here, looking for the clothes he wore, trying to smell his smell." She was surrounded by human body. She said: "I feel like I live in the cemetery." "This is a horrible city."
Civil defense agencies estimate that nearly 3,000 people may have been incinerated during the bombing, robbing some families' search. However, more people still need to recover.
The rescue staff Al-Shaghnobi said: "These people need to be discovered and respected." "This job is waiting for us. We only need equipment and we will do it."
Muath Al-Khatib and AMR Ahmad Tabash contributed to this report.