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Gazans dig corpses from rubble as ceasefire begins

Families began their desperate search as soon as Israeli soldiers abandoned this devastated refugee camp Sunday, picking by hand through mounds of concrete and steel for the bodies of dead relatives, belongings and even scraps of bombs to sell as recycled aluminum.
After three-weeks of puni-shing air strikes against Hamas militants who have been firing missiles at Israel for the last eight years, streets were turned into dunes of twisted metal, splintered wood and concrete chunks as Israel smashed much of Gaza's already shabby infrastructure and turned neighborhoods into the battle zones.
The fragile ceasefire and first movements of troops withdrawing from Gaza on Sunday allowed families and medics to intensify the search for bodies - with more than 100 dead recovered Sunday, according to Palestinian health officials. The number of Palestinian dead now stood at more than 1,250, half of those civilians. Thirteen Israelis were killed in the fighting.
Zayed Hadar, who like other residents of Jebaliya, on the edge of Gaza City, had been barred by ground combat from his home for two weeks, sifted through his family home with most of his 10 children. The three-floor building had been flattened.
“We've pulled out my nephew, but I don't know how many are still under there,” Hadar said, as several Israeli tanks could be seen in far distance.
Nearby, Palestinian boys, both cynically and desperately, mined for shards of aluminum from missiles that had killed so many.
“This big bit can bring back 1 Shekel” or U 25 cents, said Youssouf Dardoum, holding out a large chunk of twisted missile case.
Neighbors, meanwhile, franti-cally dug through mounts of dirt nearby to free a sheep bleating from among duck carcasses.
Evidence of the destruction was everywhere, in the churned up farmland, broken electricity poles dangling in the air, the charred bodies of cars abandoned on pulverized roads and sewage overflowing from broken pipes.
The stench of rotting bodies, both human and animal, hung over the area.
A mosque nearby lay entirely flattened save for a lone minaret that loomed over the dusty concrete. Hamas policemen emerged for the first time since fighting began in their dark blue uniforms, directing traffic.
. In the northwest Gaza Strip farming community of Atatra medics wearing white face masks to block out the stench pulled five bodies from a smashed house, including a woman in a long blue robe, then the leg of a child.
“We don't know if they are human or animal, it's a shame! By God, we are human!” said a medic who gave his name only as Ahmad, pushing down the cloth covering his face.
“We need specialized emer-gency teams, we are digging with our hands.”
Khadija Radi, 83, watched as her great-grandchildren picked through the remains of her damaged home. She sat on a pile of concrete, holding prayer beads, her walking stick beside her.


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