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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip AP 鈥?Tiers of graves are stacked deep underground in a bloated Gaza cemetery, where Sa ;di Baraka spends his days hacking at the earth, making room for more dead.Sometimes we make graves on top of graves, he said.Baraka and his solemn corps of volunteer gravediggers in the Deir al-Balah cemetery start at sunrise, digging new trenches or reopening existing ones. The dead can sometimes come from kilometers miles away, stretches of Gaza where burial grounds are destroyed or unreachable.READ MORE: Hamas official says group is losing faith in U.S. as Gaza cease-fire mediatorThe cemetery is 70 years old. A quarter of its graves are new.The death toll in Gaza since the beginning of the 10-m
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