MORE THAN 10,000 PALESTINIANS BURIED UNDER THE RUBBLE IN GAZA

Fri 07 November 2025:

That’s according to the National Committee for Missing Persons in Gaza, which described the enclave as “the world’s largest mass grave”.

In a statement, the committee said thousands of victims remain under the ruins of their houses, denied a dignified burial due to the vast destruction and lack of equipment needed to retrieve their bodies.

It condemned the inaction of international and humanitarian organisations, and urged the international community to take urgent steps to locate the missing, recover the bodies, and ensure that the victims’ human and legal rights are respected.

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Gaza’s ministry of health and civil defence estimates about 10,000 people are still buried in the rubble. Some experts believe the number could be as high as 14,000.

On Sunday Gaza’s ministry of health and civil defence said that even if Israel were to allow excavators and bulldozers into Gaza today, civil defence officials estimate it would take up to nine months to recover the majority of the bodies.

The agency says recovery efforts so far have been limited to small houses and apartment blocks of one or two floors, where rescuers are able to reach bodies using the few tools at their disposal.

“The problem comes when you’re dealing with buildings [that were] seven or eight storeys high – that’s when we need the heavy equipment, we’re still waiting to be allowed to bring in,” said Mughir.

In the meantime, hundreds of families queue every day at hospitals and offices of the health ministry and civil defence, seeking information about missing relatives. Mughir said that at the civil defence headquarters in Gaza City alone, upwards of 30 families a day ask for help trying to locate and recover their loved ones.

Rescue teams have so far had to rely on rudimentary tools – shovels, pickaxes, wheelbarrows, rakes, hoes – and their bare hands. Requests to Israel to allow the entry of excavators and heavy machinery so they can work more effectively have received no response.

“The whole world has seen the equipment that was brought in to retrieve the bodies of Israeli hostages [including bulldozers and excavators],” said Dr Mohammed al-Mughir, the director of humanitarian support and international cooperation at the civil defence. “We also need the same equipment to retrieve our bodies.”

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