The Civil Defense in Gaza Strip, today Saturday, retrieved the bodies of 94 Palestinians who were randomly buried in a street of Gaza City during the Israeli genocide, preparing to move them to official cemeteries.
Over two years of the Israeli genocide, thousands of Palestinians were forced to bury their relatives in temporary and mass graves, as well as in school yards, hospital premises, and streets, due to the impossibility of reaching the official cemeteries under intense Israeli bombing.
The Civil Defense said in a statement that its teams, in cooperation with the locals, “transferred the bodies of 94 martyrs who were buried during the war in a random cemetery on Al-Sahaba Street in the center of Gaza City”.
It explained that the bodies were handed over to the forensic department at Al-Shifa Medical Complex for necessary measures, in preparation for their burial in the Martyrs' Cemetery in Deir al-Balah city in the middle of the sector.
It indicated that, in cooperation with the Ministries of Health and Religious Affairs, it has completed the transfer of bodies of thousands of dead who were buried in random places due to wartime conditions, noting that the identities of some of the bodies have not yet been determined.
Civil Defense workers have been operating since the beginning of the genocide in an extremely hazardous health environment, due to the spread of bodies in exposed areas and the lack of protective equipment and biological examination tools in the sector.
The “Israeli” restrictions and the prevention of entry of basic medical supplies complicated the tasks of the teams, making them susceptible to diseases and infections during the recovery and transfer of bodies.
On October 10, 2025, a ceasefire agreement in Gaza and a prisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel began, according to the plan of US President Donald Trump.
The agreement ended the genocide committed by the occupation with American support in Gaza, which resulted in about 71,000 Palestinian martyrs and 171,000 injured, most of them children and women, and caused massive destruction with a reconstruction cost estimated by the United Nations at around 70 billion dollars.
