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Muhammad Shehada@muhammadshehad2 · Jan 18, 2026

This is the same person, before & after the Gaza Genocide🧵 Mahmoud Hammad's wife & 5 children were murdered…

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This thread documents Mahmoud Hammad's devastating experience after Israel's bombing killed his wife and five children in Gaza. He spent 100 days manually excavating 360 tons of rubble with his bare hands to recover their remains, finding only fragments of bones from his family. The thread highlights the broader crisis of over 14,000 bodies trapped under Gaza's rubble, with the UN estimating it could take until 2050 to clear debris while Israel restricts humanitarian equipment access.

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    This is the same person, before & after the Gaza Genocide🧵 Mahmoud Hammad's wife & 5 children were murdered by Israel & buried beneath the rubble of their bombed home He spent 100 days removing 360 tons of rubble with his barehands & sifting through sand to find their bones

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    2\ Every day, Mahmoud comes to the ruins of his home with a sledgehammer to clear the rubble & look for his family's remains. It took him a 100 days. Mahmoud found tiny bones of his unborn son. His wife was 9-months pregnant when Israel bombed them all.

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    3\ Mahmoud, himself wounded during Israel's genocide, dug & dug to 9 meters beneath his home, hoping to find his family's remains He found a few small bones, some belonging to his wife & some to his unborn son. He assumes some of his children where burned to ash by the Israeli airstrike (those closest to impact) & that some of his wife's remains were snatched by stray dogs Throughout the genocide, starved dogs were seen devouring the remains of Gazans killed by Israel

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    4\ There are over 14,000 Gazan bodies stuck beneat the rubble of their bombed homes. Israel currently allows excavation equipment only to locate the body of its last missing captive in Gaza, while restricting the entry of fuel & bulldozers to remove the rubble. Under Israel's siege, the UN estimates it'll take up to the year 2050 to clear the rubble produced by Israel's genocide.