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Gaza family recovers relatives killed in one of Israel's ... - NPR
A neighborhood of Beit Lahia was destroyed in Israeli strikes in October 2024, including a strike on a building that killed 132 members of the extended Abu Naser family. Anas Baba/NPR hide caption toggle caption Anas Baba/NPR Editor's note: This story contains descriptions of human remains. BEIT LAHIA, Gaza Strip — An Israeli drone buzzes over a sea of debris in northern Gaza, where homes were turned into mass graves. This is where a recovery crew has carried out one of its first missions to unearth bodies buried deep under rubble — at the site of one of the deadliest Israeli strikes of the Gaza war. The strike destroyed a five-story apartment building in late October 2024, killing more than 132 members of the extended Abu Naser family sheltering inside, an NPR investigation documented. "We've been dreaming every day of the moment we could recover the martyrs, honor them, and bury them," said Ola Abu Naser, a 30-year-old survivor. "Every day we felt as if they were calling us, saying: 'We are here.'" About 8,000 bodies are believed to still be buried under debris throughout Gaza, according to Gaza's health ministry. NPR documented the three-day recovery mission at the site of the Abu Naser family massacre. Only one digger to recover bodies in Gaza White body bags hold the remains of people recovered from the rubble of an apartment building destroyed by an Israeli strike. Anas Baba/NPR hide caption toggle caption Anas Baba/NPR Gaza's Civil Defense team selected this site as their first major recovery effort in the north, one of the parts of the territory most devastated by Israeli bombardment. Iyad Abu Jarad, who oversees the crew, said he receives 10 to 15 phone calls a day from desperate families begging for help recovering the remains of their loved ones. But there is only one functioning excavator in Gaza available for body recoveries, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. "The scale of the need is so high. One functioning excavator is simply not enough," said Pat Griffiths, a Red Cross spokesman. He said a second digging machine was recently repaired and will be put to use in the coming weeks. Israel is preventing major rehabilitation efforts until Hamas is disarmed. "Machinery like that has different sensitivities, including security ones. I don't think that we need an exaggerated mind or imagination to understand why these things can serve other purposes," said an Israeli security official, speaking on the condition o...
Gaza Death Toll Live Tracker - Real-time Casualty Count (72,680 Killed ...
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Israeli Strikes Kill at Least Three Palestinians in Gaza
In Gaza, Israeli strikes killed at least three Palestinians, including a 15-year-old child, on Tuesday. Gaza health authorities said one Palestinian was killed and two others were wounded in an ...
Israeli Strikes Kill Three Palestinians, Including a Child, in Gaza ...
CAIRO/GAZA, May 5 (Reuters) - Israeli strikes killed at least three Palestinians, including a child, and wounded several others in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, health officials said.
