Gaza
Gaza buries 100 bodies recovered from rubble in mass funeral
Image credit: Shehab Wire (EN)
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Al-Zaitoun neighborhood in Gaza held a mass funeral Sunday for approximately 100 bodies and remains recovered from collapsed residential buildings, Shehab Wire reported. Civil defense crews extracted the remains from rubble of destroyed homes in the densely populated district. Roughly 70 of those buried were children.
The burials concluded a prolonged period of waiting as families sought to retrieve relatives from the devastated area. The funeral combined mourning with the heavy toll of recovering victims from the destruction wrought across the neighborhood.
