Relatives mourn 12-year-old Ahmad Abu Teir, who was killed in an Israeli army strike, before his funeral along with seven ...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel’s military on Monday issued sweeping evacuation orders covering Rafah and nearby ...

Israel's military issues evacuation orders in Rafah, Gaza, as it plans a new ground operation. Civilians flee amid rising ...

Islamic funeral customs require that the body be washed ... The body is cleansed, groomed, and wrapped in a simple white shroud. A designated “shomer” (guardian) remains with the body until ...

Beyond minor variations in shrouding and ritual, the primary difference is that Muslim family ... in the war, burial volunteer Mohammed Abu Mussa testified to the shortage of shrouds and other ...

Israel ended a ceasefire and renewed its air and ground war against the Hamas militant group earlier this month.

Eid feels like a funeral.” Nearly four months ... a resident. In the Muslim neighbourhoods, a cloud of silence shrouds the festivities. Naseema Begum said her son Asif, 19, was arrested for ...

The imagery also appears to capture bodies covered in shrouds and the excavator ... still trying to give their loved ones a burial in accordance with Islamic rites. “Without a doubt, we will ...

His nephew is carefully wrapped in a white shroud as Shaaban slowly pats his ... cart out of the courtyard carrying bodies to their burial. Mahmoud Badr said the Israeli strike on his home ...