DaysofPal- Civil defense teams in the Gaza Strip began operations early Saturday to recover the bodies of 55 victims buried beneath the rubble of destroyed homes in the southern city of Khan Younis.
Rescue crews continue to search for the bodies under the remains of 13 demolished houses in Khan Younis as part of ongoing efforts to recover victims of Israeli bombardment during the war on Gaza.
In parallel, civil defense teams, working in coordination with international organizations, recently recovered the bodies of members of the Salem family from beneath the rubble of a house belonging to the Abu Ramadan family in the Al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City.
According to local authorities, more than 9,000 bodies are believed to remain trapped under the rubble across the Gaza Strip, victims of Israel’s war on Gaza over the past two years. In recent days, civil defense crews have also recovered dozens of bodies, including women and children, from the ruins of a building that had been sheltering displaced people in the Al-Rimal neighborhood in western Gaza City.
Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for Gaza’s Civil Defense, said rescue teams have begun searching for bodies beneath homes destroyed by Israeli forces in Gaza City, despite a severe shortage of heavy machinery.
Basal explained that the recovery operations are being carried out with the participation of the Arab Authority for the Reconstruction of Gaza, alongside all relevant government ministries in the enclave.
He noted that work began at the Abu Ramadan family home, which was destroyed in the early days of the war by Israeli airstrikes. At the time of the attack, 96 people were inside the house, including 30 children, 10 women, and seven elderly people, all of whom were killed.
He stressed that civil defense teams possess no heavy rescue equipment and are relying instead on basic tools, underscoring the urgent need for approximately 40 heavy machines to conduct serious and effective recovery operations and to bury the dead with dignity in accordance with religious rites.
Basal called on the guarantors of the ceasefire agreement to exert pressure to allow the entry of heavy equipment and facilitate rescue and evacuation operations. He criticized what he described as double standards, noting that advanced equipment has been permitted into Gaza to search for the bodies of Israeli captives, while similar resources remain denied for the recovery of Palestinian victims.
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