‘I wanted to hug whatever remained’: Gaza families’ 3-year wait for funeral

Gaza City, the Gaza Strip – Lara Abu Shreia could not sleep on Monday night.

Every time she closed her eyes, she says, the faces of her loved ones appeared before her. So the 39-year-old turned to her phone, scrolling through photos as she prepared herself for a long-awaited farewell to her family.

In the largest mass funeral held in Gaza since Israel’s genocidal war again...