Gaza's health ministry says that an estimated 1,200 people are still trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings awaiting rescue, or recovery
For hours and hours, Moen Abu Aish digs through the rubble of demolished homes to find survivors of Israeli airstrikes, toiling in a vast and desperate search complicated by the shortage of critical supplies and the sheer scope of destruction across the Gaza Strip. Even as rescue worker Abu Aish, 58, and his colleagues struggle to pry lifeless bodies from the concrete and twisted metal where residential towers once stood, the death toll keeps rising.
The massive blasts ripping through the northern Jabaliya refugee camp where he lives have been bad enough, he said. What made them worse was not knowing how his loved ones fared. Since Israeli bombardment destroyed two of Gaza’s three main lines for mobile communication last week, he hasn’t spoken to his family in five days. “I miss them so much it hurts,” he said of his seven kids and 10 grandchildren. “But this is my mission. I respect it.
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