from the beginning i was of the opinion that the gaza death tole was about half right and this article reinforces that thought; 

A Palestinian mother in the city of Rafah reaches the rubble of her house and finds what she believes is her son’s decomposed body. The mother runs and approaches the body, of which nothing remains but the skull and bones. She embraces the skull and holds it to her chest while crying and talking to the skull that she has in her arms. It is her son.

The mother tells her son that she came to search for him and that she found him. People gather around her and watch as she cries, taking in the intensity of the pain in her words. She tells them that he is her only son and that she is not afraid to embrace his skull.

“I felt this, my son, my soul, my heart… I felt this, and I came to you; I came to you myself, my beloved son, to find and take you; no one searched for you; I came alone looking for you.” A video of the mother has spread on social media platforms without any information about the mother, except that she says her son’s name as she cries over him.

“Hassan, Hassan, Hassan!” The mother embraces the skull and calls out to it, “I didn’t sleep all night to come look for you, my son.”.........more.........