Photos: Gaza holds funeral for 100 Palestinians recovered from rubble

Gaza families hold mass funeral for 100 people recovered from rubble in Zeitoun neighbourhood.

Mass funeral for Palestinians recovered from beneath the rubble in Gaza [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]

Palestinians have held a funeral procession for 100 people whose bodies were recovered from beneath the rubble of destroyed homes in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood.

Thousands of Palestinians, including relatives of the victims, attended the procession on Sunday. The remains were laid out near the ruins of the homes and draped in Palestinian flags.

The victims, from the Rahim, Balawi, Malaka, Qanbour and Salmi families, were killed when Israeli forces struck several residential homes around two and a half years ago, according to local authorities.

Similar mass recovery operations in recent weeks have retrieved more than 100 bodies from the Abu Shariah and Hassaniya families killed in a single strike, and more than 500 from the al-Taj Tower site, officials and activists said.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 73,651 Palestinians have been killed and 174,592 injured since October 2023.

Mourners carry bodies covered in Palestinian flags during the mass funeral in Gaza City. [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]

The victims recovered from rubble were killed by Israeli strikes in 2023. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]

Many of the dead came from the extended Malaka family, which alone lost 55 members, along with the Balawi, Salmi and other Zeitoun neighbourhood families. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]

Ajith Sunghay, head of the UN human rights office in the occupied Palestinian territories, told Al Jazeera that the scenes were a reminder of the "brutality of this conflict". [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]

The remains were carried by family members from Zeitoun to al-Ma'madani cemetery in central Gaza City for burial. [Saeed M. M. T. Jaras/Anadolu]

Similar mass recovery operations in recent weeks have retrieved more than 100 bodies from the Abu Shariah and Hassaniya families killed in a single strike, and more than 500 from the al-Taj Tower site. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]

Gaza's Health Ministry says at least 73,651 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023. [Saeed M. M. T. Jaras/Anadolu]

加沙家庭为100名从Zeitoun社区废墟中救出的遇难者举行集体葬礼。

为从加沙废墟下找到的巴勒斯坦人举行集体葬礼 [Dawoud Abu Alkas/路透社]

巴勒斯坦人为 100 名遇难者举行了葬礼游行，这些遇难者的遗体是从加沙城宰图恩社区被毁房屋的废墟下找到的。

周日，数千名巴勒斯坦人，包括遇难者家属，参加了送葬队伍。遗体被安放在房屋废墟附近，并覆盖着巴勒斯坦国旗。

据当地政府称，大约两年半前，以色列军队袭击了几处居民住宅，造成来自拉希姆、巴拉维、马拉卡、坎布尔和萨尔米家族的受害者丧生。

官员和活动人士表示，最近几周类似的大规模搜寻行动已经从一次袭击中遇难的阿布·沙里亚和哈桑尼亚家族中搜寻出 100 多具遗体，并从塔吉塔遗址搜寻出 500 多具遗体。

加沙卫生部表示，自 2023 年 10 月以来，至少有 73,651 名巴勒斯坦人丧生，174,592 人受伤。

在加沙城举行的集体葬礼上，哀悼者抬着覆盖着巴勒斯坦国旗的遗体。[Dawoud Abu Alkas/路透社]

从废墟中发现的遇难者均死于以色列2023年的空袭。[Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]

许多死者来自马拉卡大家族，仅该家族就有55名成员遇难，此外还有巴拉维、萨尔米以及扎伊图恩社区的其他家族也失去了亲人。[杰哈德·阿尔什拉菲/美联社照片]

联合国人权事务高级专员办事处驻巴勒斯坦被占领土负责人阿吉特·桑盖告诉半岛电视台，这些场景提醒人们“这场冲突的残酷性”。[杰哈德·阿尔什拉菲/美联社照片]

遗体由家属从宰图恩运往加沙市中心的马马达尼公墓安葬。[Saeed MMT Jaras/Anadolu]

最近几周，类似的大规模遗体搜寻行动已从在一次袭击中遇难的阿布·沙里亚和哈萨尼亚家族中寻回100多具遗体，并从塔吉塔遗址寻回500多具遗体。[杰哈德·阿尔什拉菲/美联社照片]

加沙卫生部称，自2023年10月以来，至少有73651名巴勒斯坦人丧生。[Saeed MMT Jaras/Anadolu]