In Lebanon, temporary cemeteries house the dead exiled by the war

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Lebanon's morgues and graveyards are overwhelmed. As Israeli strikes on Hezbollah positions kill and wound thousands, entire communities in southern Lebanon have become too dangerous for burials. In Saïda and other cities, temporary cemeteries now hold bodies in a kind of limbo, the dead waiting for peace, or at least a ceasefire, before families can properly lay them to rest. Hundreds of corpses remain unclaimed or unidentified. The war has not just fractured the living; it has fractured how the dead are mourned.