The Aftermath

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Sarah Helm. The Aftermath

Contents

1. The Erased

2. Unfulfilled Hopes

3. Besieged

4. Summer Remains

5. The Mechanism

6. The Conversationalist

7. The Rule of Law

8. Smiling Through The Pain

1. About the Author

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“At least 2,200 Gazans are now known to have died in the 50-day Israel-Gaza war, which broke out on 17 July 2014 after escalating violence on both sides. Israel lost 64 soldiers in the same conflict and six Israeli civilians died … ”

In a house in Rafah in southern Gaza, near the Egyptian border, Nabil Siyam, aged 34, slowly lays out pictures. He only has one arm – the other was blown off by an Israeli bomb during the summer war.

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“If I die I want to come home to be buried with my family,” Mohammed told his grandfather, who accompanied him to Turkey. The family said that Israel refused permission for the body to be flown into nearby Tel Aviv, so Mohammed’s grandfather brought the boy’s body home via Jordan, then over the Allenby Bridge by ambulance across the West Bank and Israel to Gaza’s Erez crossing and down to Rafah.

It was dark when Mohammed and his grandfather reached Rafah. Immediately a fire was lit in the cemetery and the body cremated, his ashes interred near his cousins, bringing the total number killed in the family to 13.

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