Coffins containing the remains of those killed will be carried in a funeral procession involving family members.
Published On ۱ Oct ۲۰۲۶
Palestinians are preparing to bury the remains of ۱۰۵ people killed in a devastating Israeli attack on Gaza City in October ۲۰۲۳.
The victims were killed in a series of Israeli air strikes involving at least ۲۰ bombs that levelled the seven-storey Al Taj ۳ building and destroyed several other residential buildings in the Yarmouk Square neighbourhood on the afternoon of October ۲۵, ۲۰۲۳.
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Coffins containing the remains of those killed will be carried in a funeral procession involving family members on Thursday, the General Directorate of Civil Defence said.
The remains will be buried in the Sheikh Radwan cemetery, northwest of Gaza City.
Gaza’s civil defence said the recovery operation was carried out in coordination with an Egyptian committee.
Al Jazeera correspondent Ibrahim Khalili, reporting from Gaza City, said the recovery operation was the fifth largest of its kind since Israel launched its genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza in October ۲۰۲۳, in terms of the number of bodies recovered.
Civil defence operations director Abdul al-Majdalawi said it had been “impossible” to reach the bodies at the time of the attack.
“Bulldozers, excavators and other heavy machinery used by civil defence teams in Gaza were directly and deliberately targeted,” he said.
Osama Sharaf said ۳۷ members of his family were killed in the attack.
“We recovered some of them at the beginning of the war, and today [Wednesday] ۱۶ more were recovered, including my father, my mother, and all of my siblings. My sister’s son was also there with them,” he said.
