The Civil Defence in Gaza has said that around 8,000 bodies remain under the rubble of destroyed buildings across the territory, despite ongoing search and rescue efforts.
In a statement on Thursday, spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said Civil Defence teams are working under very difficult conditions with limited resources, which makes it hard to reach many affected areas.
He added that more than 3,000 people are still missing, with no confirmed information about whether they are alive, have died, or been detained.
He pointed out that hundreds of bodies had decomposed or lost their features during the search operations, due to the prolonged time and the…