Gaza Crews Recover 19 Bodies From Collapsed Building as 8,000 Remain Missing Under Rubble
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Updated · Al Jazeera English · Aug 11
Gaza Crews Recover 19 Bodies From Collapsed Building as 8,000 Remain Missing Under Rubble
2 articles · Updated · Al Jazeera English · Aug 11
Summary
Nineteen bodies—mostly women and children—were pulled from a collapsed Gaza building on Saturday after four days of manual digging, one of the territory’s largest recent recovery efforts.
Heavy machinery is still barred from entering Gaza, slowing searches for the dead; the Health Ministry says more than 8,000 people remain missing under rubble across the Strip.
The recovery came as Gaza held a mass funeral for 112 members of two families killed in a November 2023 strike, whose remains were only found last week; more than 150 from that attack are still missing.
UN satellite analysis found 82% of Gaza’s structures—more than 201,000 buildings—were damaged or destroyed as of mid-June, underscoring the scale of destruction still hampering rescue and reconstruction.