Gaza City has held a mass funeral for more than 100 Palestinians whose remains were recovered from the rubble of buildings destroyed during the war.
The remains were recovered from the Yarmouk area, where residential buildings were destroyed in Israeli strikes in October 2023. Civil defence teams and local workers spent days searching through heavy concrete debris to retrieve the victims.
On Thursday, mourners gathered at Sheikh Radwan cemetery in Gaza City for funeral prayers and burial. Coffins were carried in a procession as families and relatives gathered to pay their final respects.
Gaza’s Civil Defence said the recovery operation was carried out with the help of heavy machinery and in coordination with an Egyptian committee. Officials said many of the remains had been inaccessible for years because of the destruction and the difficulty of clearing collapsed buildings.
The latest burial is part of continuing efforts to recover thousands of people believed to remain beneath destroyed buildings across Gaza.
For many families, the recovery of the remains has provided an opportunity to finally identify and bury relatives who had been missing since the early stages of the war.
The mass funeral comes as Gaza continues to face the enormous humanitarian and reconstruction challenges left by years of conflict.
