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The morgues in Gaza are flooded after the Israeli airstrikes.
Now the dead are stored in ice cream vans.
– The Gaza Strip is in crisis, says doctor Yasser Ali.
On the ice cream trucks in Gaza, the advertisements with pictures of smiling children are still there.
But the freezers are now filled with people who died in the violent airstrikes over the area.
– The hospital’s morgue only has room for ten bodies, so we have brought in ice cream trucks to store the large number of martyrs, Yasser Ali who is a doctor at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah told Reuters.
According to Palestinian authorities, the death toll has passed 2,300. Israel’s prime minister states at the same time that 1,400 Israelis have been killed.
– The Gaza Strip is in crisis and if the war continues in this way, we will not be able to bury the dead. The cemeteries are already full and we need new ones to bury everyone, says Yasser Ali.
Mass graves are now being prepared, says Salama Marouf, head of communications for the Palestinian government.
– As martyrs by the dozens continue to pour in due to the massacres of the occupation, a mass grave has been prepared to bury around 100 people in an emergency cemetery.
“Escalating situation on the border”
On Sunday evening, Sky News also reports on an “escalating situation” on the border between Israel and Lebanon.
The Shia Muslim militia group Hezbollah is reportedly stepping up its presence at the border to prevent Israel’s counteroffensive in Gaza, according to Israel’s spokesman Admiral Daniel Hagari.
He states that the Israeli attacks in the area are designed to “hit the maximum number of terrorists and the minimum number of civilians”. Something that the Palestinian authorities oppose.
In total, over 600,000 people are said to have fled south since the evacuation from the area began.