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Gaza s gravediggers saw war: Covid is harder 2021|02:18 As the pandemic drags on, the burden of casualties is increasingly shifting toward the world s poorer areas. And here in the Palestinian territories it is front and center, where the sick and dying are pushing Gaza s hospitals close to capacity. Mohammad al-Haresh knows. He s the man burying the dead, and he says even the Israeli-Gaza war of 2014 wasn t this difficult for him. There used to be one or two funerals a day, and some days none at all, he says. Now he has eight a day, 10 a day, and God knows they ll increase. He s burying bodies in the day and night. Across the border fence in Israel, daily headlines show progress against the disease. Over half of Israelis are fully vaccinated, cases are down sharply, and people no longer have to wear masks outdoors. In Gaza, with a densely packed population of two million people, only a mere 34,000 have been vaccinated. Health officials say disregard for social distancing helped

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