Nineteen bodies, mostly women and children, have been recovered from\nthe rubble of a destroyed residential building in Gaza City. The\nevacuation, completed on Saturday, is the latest in a slow and largely\nmanual effort to retrieve the dead from beneath the debris in Gaza.<\/p>\n
Gaza\u2019s civil defence agency says the work is hampered by a chronic\nshortage of heavy machinery needed to clear concrete rubble. Mohammed\nAbu Dan, who led the recovery effort, said work at the \u2018Karam\u2019 building\nin western Gaza had concluded after four consecutive days of searching.\nHe said medical teams and civil defence officers would now move to a new\nlocation in Gaza City to continue search operations.<\/p>\n
Civil defence officials have repeatedly stated that their teams rely\nonly on simple tools and exhausting manual labour, due to the\nunavailability of heavy equipment capable of moving concrete blocks\ndestroyed by Israeli attacks. The Gaza Health Ministry says more than\n8,000 people are still listed as missing under the rubble across the\nterritory. Since a ceasefire took effect on 11 October last year, at\nleast 1,254 people have been killed, 4,121 wounded, and 804 bodies\nevacuated from the rubble, according to the ministry\u2019s latest data.<\/p>\n
The total death toll since October 2023 has reached more than 73,300\npeople, with over 174,000 wounded. This recovery operation follows a\nmass burial held in Gaza City on Tuesday for 112 people from the Abu\nSharia and al-Hasayna families; their bodies were found in the rubble of\na residential block in the Sabra area of Gaza, destroyed by Israeli\nattacks in November 2023.<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/nineteen-bodies-recovered-from-rubble-in-gaza-city-1786251092", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }