Gaza Health Ministry says unable to recover dead bodies in N Gaza

Mounir Al-Bursh affirmed, in press statements on Wednesday, that all medical personnel and civil defense crews are unable to reach the bodies of the martyrs due to Israeli threats of killing anyone who approaches them.

He added that the ongoing Israeli aggression on the northern Gaza Strip has left, over the past 60 days, more than 4,000 martyrs and missing, according to latest estimates.

Al-Bursh pointed out that Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire at the ambulances that tried to save the wounded and recover the martyrs’ bodies from the targeted sites, stressing that the IOF blocked the entry of medicine and other medical supplies.

For his part, the spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defense Agency, Mahmoud Basal, said dozens of stranded people who could have been rescued were martyred under the rubble of their destroyed homes, due to rescue teams’ inability to respond to their calls, in light of the weak capabilities and the continuation of the Israeli genocidal war in northern Gaza.

In a press statement on Wednesday, Basal said the IOF deliberately targets inhabited homes in the northern Gaza Strip as part of its genocidal war and ethnic cleansing crimes against the Palestinians.

He affirmed that dozens of bodies are still lying in the streets and under the rubble of homes in northern Gaza, as no one is allowed to reach and bury them.