DaysofPal- The Gaza Civil Defense announced on Tuesday that its teams have recovered the bodies of 53,712 victims since the beginning of the Israeli war on Gaza.
Ambulance crews transported 23,952 martyrs, while rescue teams evacuated 125,752 wounded individuals, with 40,240 of them transported by ambulances.
According to the statement, the Civil Defense received 635,000 emergency calls, including 121,000 repeated calls and 52,000 that could not be reached due to fuel shortages or the inability to coordinate access to targeted areas, especially in the northern governorates.
The report also noted that 65,020 people were evacuated from dangerous areas, while Israeli forces abducted 2,290 bodies from various locations across the Strip.
Around 8,120 individuals remain forcibly disappeared from different regions of Gaza.
Moreover, rescue teams have extinguished 25,509 fires caused by strikes on residential, commercial, and agricultural areas and responded to 21,840 medical emergencies.
Civil Defense units carried out 12,586 rescue missions using fire trucks and excavation equipment.
The statement added that 12,590 wounded victims died due to fuel shortages and restrictions on team movement, which prevented timely firefighting and rescue operations, which are violations of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions.
The report further revealed that 2,840 victims’ bodies were completely vaporized due to the use of thermal weapons that generated heat between 7,000–9,000 C, disintegrating anyone at the center of the explosion.
The Israeli occupation reportedly used 105,000 tons of explosives, equivalent to 620,000 airstrikes, including 19,200 tons of hazardous remnants that pose a long-term threat to civilians and agriculture.
According to the statement, Israeli forces have been deploying around 25 explosive robots daily in Gaza City alone, each carrying seven tons of explosives to demolish infrastructure and buildings.
The Civil Defense has lost 140 personnel in the line of duty and sustained 355 injuries, some of them multiple times.
Thirty-one members were detained by Israeli forces, with 11 later released.
The statement also noted that the Israeli occupation concealed its attacks on civil defense teams in Rafah, including strikes on fire trucks, ambulances, and Red Crescent vehicles, as well as a direct drone strike on the civil defense station at the Applied College.
It added that 150 workers are suffering from severe physical exhaustion due to hunger and malnutrition caused by the ongoing siege.
It also said that operations across Gaza have been severely disrupted, where activities have completely ceased in northern Gaza due to the ground invasion and the destruction of facilities, including the arrest of the regional director and killing of deputies.
In Rafah, operations have halted by 95%; in Khan Yunis 80%; in Gaza City 85%; and in the central region 25%.
The report documented extensive damage to civil defense infrastructure as follows: 14 stations were destroyed and 3 were partially damaged. The total losses include 13 fire trucks, 1 rescue vehicle, 3 rapid-response units, 6 water tankers, 2 hydraulic ladders, 10 ambulances, and 13 administrative vehicles.
Despite repeated targeting, the teams managed to repair and redeploy 13 fire and rescue vehicles, 3 water tankers, and 6 ambulances, though 50 direct and indirect attacks were recorded against their facilities.
The Civil Defense concluded by stating that its operations have been entirely blocked in large parts of Rafah and northern Gaza, leaving many civilians without essential emergency services amid ongoing bombardments.
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