The Luxury of Death | Institute for Palestine Studies

###No one dies complete

After a missile strike, everyone searches in the debris to put their loved ones back together. Mothers search for their children's heads to match with their bodies. To be a good mother in the rest of the world is to feed your children good food and keep them warm, but to be a good mother in Gaza is to bury your children whole.

Even two months later, I am still searching for the remains of my friend Israa's body. I regularly ask for updates from my family to see if they have found more parts of her yet.

If you were killed at the beginning of the genocide, you could be buried properly, but now there is no official graveyard. Even the mass graveyards are being bulldozed by Israeli soldiers; it's like they want to kill us again and again, to make sure we are completely dead.