A quadcopter buzzed overhead, blaring the voice of an Israeli official. It directed aid workers to a mound of sand on the eastern side of the road.
This, the voice indicated, is where they would find their missing colleagues.
It had been a week since Israeli soldiers killed them and buried their bodies in a mass grave.
Access to the site had only been granted once before, three days earlier. That dig had turned up a single body – that of Anwar al Attar, buried beneath the crushed remains of his fire engine.
This time, the bodies turned up in quick succession. One-by-one, they were lifted from the grave, placed into white bags and lined up neatly on the road. ….more