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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Wafaa Shurafa,Samy Magdy and Melanie Lidman

Palestinians hold mass funeral for 112 bodies finally recovered from a 2023 Gaza strike

APTOPIX Israel Palestinians Gaza - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Palestinians gathered on Tuesday for a mass funeral of more than 100 bodies finally recovered from a deadly Israeli strike in Gaza in 2023. More than 300 people were killed on Nov. 22, 2023, weeks into the war with Hamas, when warplanes flattened a residential block in Gaza City’s Sabra neighborhood.

Around 40 bodies were recovered soon afterward in a frantic scramble of rough tools and bare hands, but most were buried deep beneath the rubble. Reports of the high number of victims in one of the war's deadliest attacks took days to reach the public in the chaos just before its first ceasefire.

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