Thousands of Palestinians took part in a mass funeral in Gaza City on Tuesday for 112 members of the Hassayna and Abu Sharia families, whose remains were recovered from beneath the rubble nearly three years after an Israeli air raid.

Mourners carried bodies wrapped in Palestinian flags through the streets of the besieged city before burial, in what local media described as one of the largest funerals since Israel's genocidal war on Gaza began in October 2023.

Gaza's civil defense said its crews spent two weeks excavating a destroyed residential building in the Sabra neighborhood, eventually retrieving the remains of 112 people, including at least 40 children.

The families were killed in an Israeli strike in November 2023 that flattened their homes. Relatives used the funeral to renew accusations that Israel committed war crimes in Gaza and demanded international investigations into the attack and the hundreds of bodies still believed to be buried under rubble across the territory.

According to civil defense, hundreds of bodies remain under the rubble, with Palestinian officials estimating the number in the thousands. Excavation efforts are hampered by ongoing bombardment and lack of resources, leaving families in anguish as they await the return of their loved ones.

Source: www.aljazeera.com