STORY: After months of a war which has laid waste to Gaza and driven almost all of its 2.3 million population from their homes, displaced Palestinians are taking refuge in cemeteries as space becomes sparse.
Palestinians are setting up makeshift tents as bodies are being brought in to be buried around them.
“There was no place to go and in the end we lived in a cemetery. And thank God for everything. We also have baby here and thank to God. What can we do? This is the situation we are in and we came to the cemetery, there’s nowhere else to go,” said Rawan Ramez Zanoun.
A new round of Gaza ceasefire talks was underway in the Qatari capital Doha on Thursday (August 15) afternoon, officials said, with Israel’s spy chief joining his U.S. and Egyptian counterparts and Qatar’s prime minister for the closed-door meeting.
Even as negotiators arrived in Qatar, fighting continued in Gaza, with Israeli troops hitting targets in the southern cities of Rafah and Khan Younis.
The talks began as Gaza health officials reported separately that the death toll in the Palestinian enclave had surpassed 40,000 people, a threshold reached after more than ten months of fighting.
