Human Rights Center calls for the entry of equipment and technical teams to recover bodies trapped under the rubble

The Palestinian Center for Missing and Forcibly Disappeared Persons in Gaza called on the international community to take urgent action to allow technical teams and specialized equipment into the Gaza Strip to help recover the bodies of thousands of martyrs trapped under the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli airstrikes that have been ongoing for a full year.

The center explained in a press release on Saturday that local authorities in the Gaza Strip are unable to deal with the tens of thousands of tons of rubble left behind by the Israeli attacks.

It confirmed that the number of missing Palestinians ranges between eight and nine thousand, the majority of whom are believed to still be under the rubble or in areas of Israeli military deployment in the north, center, and south of the Gaza Strip.

In concluding its statement, the Center called on the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the entire international community to take immediate action to bring rubble-clearing equipment and identification technology into the Gaza Strip, while ensuring an immediate cessation of shelling and the provision of safe passage for local and international rescue teams to carry out their humanitarian missions.