Over the past 12 weeks, the piece of white cloth has become a symbol of civilian deaths wrought by Israel as it launched a brutal war on Gaza following Hamas’ killing 1,200 people and taking 240 hostages in its Oct. 7 cross-border raid, the deadliest day in Israel’s history. A volunteer says that so many people are dying in Gaza that sometimes donated shrouds are not enough and he has to wrap four to five people in one shroud.
