Palestinians to bury remains of 105 killed in 2023 Gaza City strike
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Palestinians are preparing to bury the remains of 105 people killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza City in October 2023. The funeral procession will take place on Thursday, with burial at Sheikh Radwan cemetery. The recovery operation was carried out in coordination with an Egyptian committee.
Key Facts
- The remains of 105 people killed in the October 25, 2023 Israeli air strikes on Gaza City will be buried on Thursday.
- The funeral procession will carry coffins from the recovery site to Sheikh Radwan cemetery, northwest of Gaza City.
- Gaza's civil defence said the recovery operation was the fifth largest of its kind since October 2023.
- Osama Sharaf said 37 members of his family were killed in the attack, and 16 more were recovered on Wednesday.
The Attack
The victims were killed in a series of Israeli air strikes involving at least 20 bombs that levelled the seven-storey Al Taj 3 building and destroyed several other residential buildings in the Yarmouk Square neighbourhood on the afternoon of October 25, 2023. Civil defence operations director Abdul al-Majdalawi said it had been "impossible" to reach the bodies at the time of the attack. He said bulldozers, excavators and other heavy machinery used by civil defence teams in Gaza were directly and deliberately targeted.
Recovery and Burial
Gaza's civil defence said the recovery operation was carried out in coordination with an Egyptian committee. Al Jazeera correspondent Ibrahim Khalili, reporting from Gaza City, said the recovery operation was the fifth largest of its kind since Israel launched its war on Gaza in October 2023, in terms of the number of bodies recovered. Osama Sharaf said 37 members of his family were killed in the attack, and 16 more were recovered on Wednesday, including his father, mother, and all of his siblings.
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