'We received 80 bodies inside 15 bags, with more than four martyrs in each bag, each wrapped in a single shroud', Civil Defence Director Yamen Abu Suleiman says.
"We received 80 bodies inside 15 bags, with more than four martyrs in each bag, each wrapped in a single shroud", Civil Defence Director Yamen Abu Suleiman says.Salwa Karaz, a displaced woman from Gaza City in the north, said that she had gone to the cemetery hoping to find her 32-year-old son Marwan, who went missing in January. / Photo: AA
Civil Defence agency in Gaza has said it received the bodies of 80 unidentified Palestinians from Israel, which it buried in a mass grave. "We received 80 bodies inside 15 bags, with more than four martyrs in each bag, each wrapped in a single shroud", Civil Defence Director Yamen Abu Suleiman said on Monday.
Abu Suleiman said Israeli authorities did not provide any information about the bodies, including their names or where they were found or taken from.In a video released by the Health Ministry in Gaza, men in hazmat suits could be seen inspecting the corpses wrapped in blue plastic sheeting, before unloading them from the shipping container they had arrived in.The bodies were later buried at the Turkish cemetery, near Khan Younis, the main city in the southern part of Gaza, journalists said.
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