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IDF confirms Gaza Commonwealth war cemetery damaged in operation to destroy Hamas terror tunnels

The IDF's operation to dismantle Hamas tunnels in Gaza has damaged a Commonwealth military cemetery, raising concerns about the preservation of war graves and the handling of sensitive sites.

Buildings lie in ruins amidst the rubble in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on December 8, 2025.
Israel's burial grounds shortage is worse than that predicted by the state comptroller in 2024.

Israel might be on verge of burial crisis with cemeteries struggling for burial space

Family members and friends attend a funeral service for Israeli singer and composer Mati Caspi, who passed away after a prolonged battle with cancer, in Tel Aviv, February 9, 2026.

Matti Caspi laid to rest as family and artists gather to honor his legacy

St.-Sgt.-Maj. Ran Gvili

IDF recovers remains of final hostage Ran Gvili after covert operations in northern Gaza


French interior min. insists on right of public religious dress

Darmanin insisted that religious dress be allowed in public during dedication of restored graves vandalized in antisemitic attack in 2015.

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin places a stone on a recently restored gravestone

Arabs clash with police near Yusufiya cemetery in Jerusalem

Arabs clashed with police near the Yusufiya Cemetery in east Jerusalem, as controversy surrounding illegal graves continued.

 Arab families argue with authorities about construction near graves of their relatives near Yusufiya Cemetery

Gravestone epitaph accuses hospital of 'murdering' woman in COVID ward

A hospital expressed outrage after an engraving on a gravestone accused it of murdering a woman in the COVID ward.

The Rabin Medical Center - Beilinson Campus in Petah Tikva

Libya’s Jewish graveyards were destroyed. They are being rebuilt online.

“I was horrified to see children playing atop the ruins of the Tripoli Jewish cemetery, scampering about debris littered with human remains,” says David Gerbi, who left Libya many years ago.

Libyan Jewish exile David Gerbi prays inside Dar Bishi synagogue in Tripoli October 1, 2011. Gerbi and his family fled Tripoli in 1967 when an Arab-Israeli war stoked anger against the Jewish state and led to attacks on Jews in his neighbourhood. Gaddafi expelled the rest of Libya's 38,000 Jews two

Jews, Christians and Muslims to paint over swastikas in Argentinian Jewish cemetery

The ceremony included evangelical Christians, Catholics and Muslims as well as representatives from a host of local groups, and it was streamed online.

 The Jewish cemetery of La Tablada in Buenos Aires, Argentina, pictured in 2013.

More than 100 headstones smashed at Jewish cemetery in Argentina

Over 100 headstones were smashed at the historic Tablada cemetery in Buenos Aires, in a second such incident since 2009.

 The Jewish cemetery of La Tablada in Buenos Aires, Argentina, pictured in 2013.

Ancient warrior found buried with his steed and his dog

The burial site was used in the early Bronze Age and the Jutes took it over 2,500 years later.

 Early Anglo-Saxon horse and dog burial

Hospital buries stillborn baby against parents' wishes

The baby was buried in a mass grave instead of allowing the parents to bury him independently in accordance with the laws of Islam.

THE HADASSAH-UNIVERSITY Medical Center campus is seen in Ein Kerem.

Chief rabbi wants exhumation of woman who may have pretended to be Jewish

Exhumation is an extreme measure in Judaism, where mortal remains should not be disturbed.

Bedouin youth restore the cemetary in Nevatim after it was vandalized.

Father ends his life over grave of son who was killed in Protective Edge

Moshe Etzion was an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor and lost his son in a mortar explosion in the last hours of protective edge.

The cover of the book written about Moshe Etzion who took his life over his son's grave on Sunday