This was revealed by Rehab Abu Daqqa, a refugee living in Gaza, to BBC, noting that dogs were seen eating dead bodies.
Dogs have reportedly begun eating bodies on the streets in Rafah, the capital of the Rafah Governorate of the State of Palestine, southwest of Gaza City.
This was revealed by Rehab Abu Daqqa, a refugee living in Gaza, to BBC, noting that dogs were seen eating dead bodies.
"This morning the dogs took out a body from one of the graves and were eating it. From night until dawn the dogs do not let us sleep, our children keep holding on to me because of how scared they are," Rehab Abu said.
BBC reports that the dogs come in packs of dozens. Domestic pets whose owners are dead or displaced now reportedly scavenge for whatever they can eat.
The cemetery reportedly has numerous shallow graves where people place their dead until a time comes when they can be taken to their home area. On some graves, relatives have reportedly placed bricks to try to keep the dogs away from the dead.
"I don't accept that me or my children should live next to a cemetery. My child is in the 3rd grade and today instead of playing a game he was drawing a grave and in the middle, he drew a dead body.
“These are the children of Palestine… What can I tell you? Miserable, the word miserable doesn't even explain it."
Meanwhile, the cemetery is one of several in Gaza that has become a refuge for people whose homes have been destroyed in the fighting.
There are more than 1.4 million people crowded into Rafah - five times its pre-war population.
There are reports that diseases are spreading in Rafah, with outbreaks of diarrhoea, hepatitis A, and meningitis - as well as a continuing hunger crisis.
Rafah is where the refugees of Gaza reach the final wall, the border with Egypt which is closed to the overwhelming majority of the displaced.
Rehab Abu Daqqa has fled three times already and may soon have to uproot her family again if the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) offensive on Rafah goes ahead.
Israel's military has ordered Palestinians to leave parts of eastern Rafah ahead of a "limited" operation in the southern Gaza city.
About 100,000 people are being directed to head to an "expanded humanitarian area" in Khan Younis and al-Mawasi.
After seven months of war, Israel says it must take Rafah to defeat Hamas.
But the UN and US warn that an assault on the city, where more than a million displaced Palestinians are sheltering, could have catastrophic consequences.
Israeli air strikes in Rafah reportedly killed at least 19 Palestinians overnight, after three Israeli soldiers were killed by Hamas rocket fire on the nearby Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom border crossing - the key entry point for aid into Gaza.