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Starved to death and left to MUMMIFY in the world's worst zoo: Once proud animals including lions and crocodiles are now no more than horrifying 'statues' after carers had to stop feeding them
These are the horrifying pictures of mummified corpses of dozens of animals that starved to death in the world's worst zoo.
The
photographs were taken at Khan Younis zoo in the impoverished Gaza
Strip. The animals were left without food due to the Palestinian and
Israeli conflict, as staff were unable to feed or care for them
properly.
Mohammed Awaida opened South Forest Park in 2007 and invested hundreds of thousands of dollars into the zoo.
He lost a number of animals during the Israeli attacks against Hamas which began a year later
During
the three-week offensive, launched in response to rocket attacks on
Israel, Awaida said he could not reach the zoo, and many animals died of
neglect and starvation.
History repeated itself in summer 2014, in the aftermath of the Gaza war known as Operation Protective Edge.
The fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants killed more than 1,960 Palestinians and 67 people on the Israeli side.
It also left 80 animals dead and only 20 survivors in the Al-Bisan zoo in Beit Lahia.
Khan
Younis is one of five zoos in the Gaza Strip, a densely populated
coastal enclave of 1.7million people ruled by Islamic Hamas militants.
With
no government body in Gaza that oversees zoos, and no animal rights
movement in the region, the Khan Younis facility is virtually
unsupervised.
Pictures
taken this year show how the corpses have decayed over the years. The
animals now just lie there, like ornaments or gnomes, dried up and
completely lifeless.
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Many animals in a Gaza zoo have died from neglect and starvation since the start of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Mohammed Awada opened South Forest
Park in 2007 but lost a number of animals during the Israeli attacks
against Hamas which began a year later
Khan Younis is one of five zoos in the
Gaza Strip, a densely populated coastal enclave of 1.7million people
ruled by Islamic Hamas militants
A dead tiger, monkey, lioness and other skeletons of animals can be seen at the world's worst zoo in the Gaza Strip
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