31-05-2025
‘No voices, no light': Palestinian buries husband alone after two months trapped under Israeli siege
In a garden in southern Gaza under Israeli attacks, Aziza Qishta dug a grave with her bare hands.
With no shroud, the 65-year-old Palestinian wrapped her husband's body in a window curtain and buried him alone.
Ibrahim Qishta, 70, had died after being struck in the neck by shrapnel during Israel's military incursion into Rafah earlier this year.
For two months, the couple remained trapped in their home in Khirbet al-Adas, surviving off dwindling supplies as air strikes and shelling pounded the city.
When neighbours fled, Ibrahim refused to be displaced, and his wife refused to leave him behind.
