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His body had decomposed through the carpet, through the wooden floor and into the concrete.

He described thousands of bodies lying in front of houses and "the smell of gas and decomposed bodies".

Photographs released by Gaza's medical authorities show some of the bodies badly decomposed, and arriving in civilian clothes or naked except for underwear, some with multiple signs of injury.

But about three years after death, once the organic matter has decomposed, loved ones break open the front slab of the chamber.

Bodies that are left to decompose do often bloat and bleed at the mouth.