"On Sunday, two days after the ceasefire was announced, Khadr returned to search through the ruins of his parents' home. He spent the day sifting through shattered concrete and twisted metal for any sign of them. All he managed to find were some shards of their skulls and parts of their hands. Ghali Khadr. Photograph: Amjed Tantesh/The Guardian My father, a retired ambulance driver, was known for his strong will and patience. He did not know fear and was always optimistic, said Khadr, 40, of Jabaliya in northern Gaza."
"Khadr took the remains of his parents to the graveyard, but found that it too had been destroyed. He decided to bury them next to the few graves that were still intact. The destruction left by Israel's offensive on Gaza City. Photograph: Amjed Tantesh/The Guardian Like Khadr, thousands of Palestinians have returned to northern Gaza since Friday's ceasefire with a grim task ahead of them: searching for loved ones killed weeks or months earlier in Israeli airstrikes and whose bodies are buried under the rubble."
Ghali Khadr pleaded for two days with his parents to flee to southern Gaza but his father refused and was killed when an Israeli airstrike destroyed their home, burying them beneath rubble. Khadr returned two days after a ceasefire to search the ruins and found only shards of skulls and parts of hands. He took the remains to a ruined graveyard and buried them beside a few intact graves. Thousands of Palestinians have returned to northern Gaza to search for relatives trapped under debris. Civil defence estimates about 10,000 bodies are under collapsed buildings amid an estimated 60m tonnes of rubble, while roads remain blocked and rescuers lack heavy equipment.
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