(3 Dec 2024)
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Tyre, Lebanon – 2 December 2024
1. Family members crying over newly exhumed coffin of their loved one
2. Women crying during exhumation process
3. Family members touching coffin
4. Various of Lebanese Civil Defence members exhuming coffins
5. Name and number written on coffin
6. Family members waiting for exhumation process
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Laila Ghazala, attendee at the event:
“I am crying over Lebanon, over martyrs who died, and their blood fell on the ground. On what else could be cried on? They did what they did to us, and no one stood with us, nobody, not a single country stood with us. We are crying over martyrs who were fallen fighting for our land.”
8. Excavator digging in temporary cemetery
9. Various of civil defence members working to lift coffins from ground, people watching
10. People crying during process
11. Exhumed coffins placed on ground
12. Family members grieving over coffin
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Wisam Ghazal, chief physician at Lebanese health ministry in Sour (Tyre) district:
“These martyrs are those who couldn’t reach their villages due to the ongoing Israeli aggression on this land, and because of their families’ displacement. The refrigerators that preserve martyrs or dead bodies in hospitals were filled up with large numbers of martyrs. So, we were forced to do temporary burial.”
14. Civil defence team digging in cemetery
15. Framed picture of deceased on ground
16. Exhumed coffins on ground
17. Various of civil defence members identifying victim
18. Women holding pictures of their loved ones
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sheikh Rabii Qubaisi, representative of Shia Fatwaa Council:
“The idea of temporary burial is an emergency idea that occurs in emergency cases during wars, which means having no capacity to deliver dead bodies to their hometowns and cemeteries of their families. So, a land will be specified in coordination with the ministry of health, relevant parties, and the civil defence, in order to be able to bury them temporarily. The body would be put in a coffin and the coffin would be buried in the ground, and once we got the opportunity to return them to their hometowns and places that their families want to them to be buried in, we reopen the cemetery on the condition of not opening the coffin. I mean the body cannot be seen.”
20. Woman sitting by marked grave
21. Various of body being carried into ambulance
22. Wide of people gathered at temporary cemetery
STORYLINE:
Dozens of Lebanese mourners gathered at a temporary cemetery in Tyre on Monday to exhume the coffins of loved ones and give them a proper burial in their hometowns.
“No one stood with us, nobody, not a single country stood with us. We are crying over martyrs who were fallen fighting for our land,” said Laila Ghazala, an attendee at the exhumation event.
The opened cemetery contained 192 bodies of Lebanese people killed by Israeli attacks on the city over the last months.
“These martyrs are those who we couldn’t reach their villages due to the ongoing Israeli aggression on this land, and because of their families’ displacement,” said Wisam Ghazal, chief physician at Lebanese health ministry in Sour (Tyre) district.
The exhumation process was carried out by the Lebanese civil defence department in coordination with the health ministry department in Tyre and Shia Fatwa House.
More than 3,760 people were killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon during the conflict, many of them civilians, according to Lebanese health officials.
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