Hyderabad, Dec. 26 -- A 65-year-old mortician in Gaza said he has buried at least 18,000 Palestinian bodies since the Israel-Palestine conflict re-emerged in October 2023.

Yousef Abu Hatab, who witnessed one of the worst tragedies in Palestinian history, told news agency Anadolu that he burried the bodies in a cemetery in Khan Younis, even as most bodies that arrived for burial did not have any identity.

"We buried the bodies in harsh conditions, in mass graves, individual graves, and inside hospitals, under unprecedented pressure and a high number of deaths," Yousef told Anadolu. He once witnessed 15 bodies being buried in one hole.

The mortician took up the job in 2005 and said that the current genocide by Israel is the hardest time ...