Gaza holds mass funeral for 50 Palestinians killed in Israeli genocidal war
The funeral procession took place weeks after the bodies of 112 Palestinians were buried in another mass funeral, having been recovered from the site of a November 2023 Israeli attack in Sabra. At least 50 Palestinians whose bodies were retrieved recently from the rubble have been laid to rest in Gaza City, in the latest mass funeral held in the enclave for victims of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. The funeral ceremony on Thursday came weeks after search and rescue teams recovered the bodies from the site of Israeli air strikes in the early months of the war, which began in October 2023, from the neighbourhoods of Tal al-Hawa, Zeitoun, Sabra, Sheikh Radwan and Shati, Al Jazeera correspondent Ghazi al-Aloul reported. The victims came from several families, including the al-Sawafiri, al-Batniji and Gharbiya families. Al-Aloul said search teams in Gaza are working under extremely difficult conditions and have only one excavator, which is slowing recovery operations.
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In a statement, Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Sheikh Mohammed praised Hamas for reaffirming its commitment to the latest United States-backed proposal to disarm the group as part of a wider plan to end the war. The “ceasefire” deal was signed after more than two years of the genocidal war, which has killed at least 73,400 Palestinians and wounded more than 174,300, most of them women and children.
