Gaza Authorities Find 112 Bodies in Rubble
The remains included 40 children and 38 women, and the Red Cross supported the recovery as thousands in Gaza remain unaccounted for.
- On Sunday, authorities recovered 112 bodies in Sabra, a neighborhood in southern Gaza City, following nearly two weeks of manual excavation largely conducted by hand.
- Colonel Mohammed Abu Dan, who leads site operations for the civil defence agency, described the search as arduous, with teams sifting through destroyed concrete and twisted metal.
- The remains included 40 children, 38 women, and seven people with physical disabilities, according to the agency serving under Hamas.
- Amani Al-Naouq, International Committee of the Red Cross spokesperson in Gaza, said "the recovery of human remains is a critically important humanitarian issue," with ICRC supporting the operation.
- Despite ongoing ceasefire efforts, Israeli airstrikes continue across the Gaza Strip, killing four Palestinians this week, as The Hamas-run health ministry reports more than 73,300 deaths since the war began.
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For its part, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reported that it supported civil defence teams in searches for missing persons and exhumations. Amani al-Nuq, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Gaza, said that the search for missing persons and the recovery of bodies was an extremely important humanitarian issue, pointing out that such operations required time, equipment, and coordination amon…
The operations were carried out for about two weeks in a residential area. According to the person responsible for the remains extraction project, 157 other persons were reported missing under the rubble of the site.
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NettavisenAuthorities in Gaza said on Saturday they had excavated the remains of another 112 people in collapsed buildings.
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