Palestinians Employ Makeshift Graves
At Ramallah Hospital, bodies had been piling up in the morgue since Friday, slowly decomposing because there was no electricity to refrigerate them. Because of gunbattles in the streets and a tight military curfew, Palestinian families were unable to claim the bodies of loved ones and bring them to cemeteries for burial.

So hospital administrators decided it would be best to lay the dead to rest for the time being in a makeshift grave in the parking lot across the street from the hospital.
The scene could hardly have been more dismal. A driving rain fell as a yellow earth mover bit into the asphalt, then the dark dirt below, carving out a 15-by-15-foot pit.

The stench of death wafted across the parking lot as the corpses of 13 men and two women in blood-streaked white plastic body bags were carried one by one to their common grave. It had been lined with wooden pallets and blankets that were quickly soaked by the heavy, foggy drizzle. There was a separate, smaller pit for the women's bodies.
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