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112 Bodies Found in Gaza Rubble After Israeli Airstrikes; Search Continues

From Liberty Times · () Chinese

Translated from Chinese, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

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  • Gaza's civil defense agency has recovered 112 bodies, including children and women, from rubble in Gaza City after more than two years of Israeli airstrikes.
  • The operation, primarily manual, took 136 hours and is part of an ongoing effort to find missing persons and bodies.
  • The ongoing conflict has resulted in over 73,300 deaths in Gaza, with thousands still unaccounted for.

Gaza's civil defense agency announced the recovery of 112 bodies from the rubble in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City. The discovery followed 136 hours of painstaking manual excavation, primarily by hand, in the aftermath of more than two years of Israeli airstrikes. The recovered remains include 40 children, 38 women, and 7 individuals with disabilities.

The civil defense agency, a rescue unit under Hamas, stated that its teams are still searching for an additional 157 bodies believed to be buried under the debris. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) supported the nearly two-week operation, with a spokesperson emphasizing the critical humanitarian importance of recovering missing persons and bodies.

According to Gaza's Hamas-run Health Ministry, the ongoing war has claimed over 73,300 lives, a figure the United Nations considers credible. Thousands of bodies remain missing, buried beneath the widespread destruction. The ongoing search highlights the immense scale of loss and the persistent humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.

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Originally published by Liberty Times in Chinese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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