As the violence between Israel and Gaza enters its third week, the number of dead and wounded continues to rise.

Thousands of friends and family are left morning loved ones and wondering how they'll

pick up the pieces of their lives.

This is really our way of living really. All tragedies, all sadness.

Bashir is Palestinian. He asked that NPR use only his first name out of concern for his family's safety. His wife's sister was

killed in Gaza along with her six-month-old grandchild while they were sheltering in a Greek

Orthodox Church.

Christian churches across the region

dedicated services to the victims of that bombing. In Israel, members of the communities attacked by Hamas are moving through grief, shock, and anger.

Dan Alums survived one of those attacks but says more than 100 of his neighbors did not.

We're just trying to figure it out how we're going to deal with so much funerals and we don't know where to bury them.

I'm just grieving for my friend, my parents, my community.

Just don't know like how to deal with it.

Rabbi Amihai Lau Lavie has been counseling survivors of the Hamas attacks.

They just want to tell their story again and again.

We know that that is usually the response to trauma.

Storytelling is our tool of healing.

These people who've been through so much loss,

some of them have loved ones whose fate they don't know right now

many have buried people this week I cannot imagine the trauma they went through

consider this how do you help traumatize people grieve when they're still in the midst of a war?

An Israeli helpline has existed for more than 25 years

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