Apr 22, 2024. Posted by Periscope - Hellas
According to Gaza's civil defense agency, at least 283 bodies have been discovered from a mass grave located at the Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis by health workers on Monday.
Health
workers have uncovered at least 283 bodies of people from a mass grave at
the Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, Gaza's
civil defense agency said Monday.
"Civil
defense crews retrieved 73 more bodies from the mass grave, bringing the
total figure to 283 bodies since Saturday," the agency said in a
statement.
According
to the statement, civil defense crews are still searching for more bodies in
the grave.
A mass
grave was found in the hospital's courtyard on Saturday after the Israeli
army withdrew from the city on April 7 following a 4-month ground offensive.
According
to Ismail al-Thawabteh of Gaza's government media office, around 700
people have been unaccounted for since the Israeli army withdrawal from the
city.
"We
believe that there are hundreds of bodies still missing after being executed by
the Israeli occupation and buried in mass graves,'' he told Anadolu.
Israel has
waged a brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip since a cross-border Hamas
attack on Oct. 7 last year, which Tel Aviv says killed nearly 1,200 people.
At least
34,151 Palestinians have since been killed, mostly women and children, and
77,00 others injured amid mass destruction and severe shortages of
necessities.
The Israeli
war has pushed 85% of Gaza's population into internal displacement amid
acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while 60% of the enclave's
infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.
Israel
stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice. An
interim ruling in January ordered Tel Aviv to stop genocidal acts and take
measures to guarantee that humanitarian assistance is provided to civilians in
Gaza.
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