FLASH
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The dogs and cats actually ate my brother's bones.
The Abu Rizq family were shocked to find the body of their son, Mohamed, who had been missing for about four weeks in the southernmost Gaza city of Rafah. The body of the 22-year-old was completely decomposed and there were signs that it had been eaten by dogs and cats.
"The dogs and cats actually ate my brother's bones. I saw this. We knew where his body was, but we couldn't reach him and stop them," said Mahmoud Abu Rizq, explaining that Mohamed's body was in a "very dangerous" area where the Israeli army hit anyone who It took eight days for Abu Rizku to reach the area and take the body, but he did not allow the family to see the body.
“Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that my brother would die, and the dogs and cats would eat his body in front of me, and there was nothing I could do. How and why is this happening to the Palestinian people?" he said.
Horror scenes
Mohammed Abu Rizq is one of dozens of Palestinians whose bodies have been eaten by dogs and cats on the streets, according to testimonies obtained by Daraj's correspondent in Gaza and videos documenting gruesome scenes of animals eating dead bodies.
Israel's war in Gaza has killed more than 43,600 people and wounded more than 103,000, Palestinian health officials say. More than 7,000 others are still missing under the rubble of destroyed homes and inaccessible areas especially in northern Gaza.
She still hears the sound of dogs and cats eating scraps.
Hanin al-Dayah, a recent graduate of the Faculty of Medicine at the Islamic University of Gaza, said 13 of her relatives were killed in February in an Israeli attack in northern Gaza. The remains of her father, brother, uncle and relatives were scattered on the street by the force of the Israeli rocket that fell on them. They were unable to reach the area for a while until the cats arrived and started eating the bodies.
"I was chasing cats on the street to collect parts of the bones of my father, brother and relatives and bury them," she said, adding that the scene still haunts her; she still hears the sound of dogs and cats eating scraps.
Changing animal behavior
In Khan Younis, specifically the Nasser Medical Complex, Raed Hammad watched cats gather around and eat a dead body in March during an Israeli raid on the medical facility. He was unable to stop them because Israeli snipers were in the area at the time.
"It was a cruel scene. "I never imagined that I would see a cat eating the body of a dead person while I stood helpless," Hammad recalled. Like al-Dayah, he is still haunted by what he saw, saying he has had difficult and difficult nights and "nightmares don't let him sleep."
When the Israeli army withdrew from Khan Younis earlier this year, the returning families found a change in the behavior of the cats and dogs. The animals became wilder, attacking children on the street, residents say.
Animals dig graves
"Cats and dogs in our area have become wilder and bigger," said Khaled al-Dada, a resident of Khan Younis. He said it appears the animals were hanging on to the carcasses amid food shortages after people fled their homes. Food security experts and rights groups have already warned that famine may be developing in northern Gaza, where the Israeli army has imposed a near-total siege for five weeks.
Al-Dada chases stray dogs and cats every night and does not allow them to approach his tent in Khan Younis camp, fearing that they might attack his children./ Adapted "Pamphlet" from " WolrdCrunch ".
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