A dozen exhausted hospital workers buried 32 bodies in a shallow mass grave yesterday, a temporary resting spot for casualties of weeks of Israeli bombardment. No mourners were at the grave site, a dusty industrial lot in a sunbaked corner of Tyre. None of the dead was from this southern city, and when the conflict is over, each will be disinterred and sent back home. The plain plywood coffins held children, multiple members of the same families, and men who were identified, barely, by grieving widows. "These are temporary burials only; they will have proper burials when their families can claim them and take them home," said Ali Chouman, a technician for Tyre's municipal hospital. Mr. Chouman found eight of the bodies Thursday. "We need to bury them now because the neighbors are getting sick from it," he said of the stench. ...
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