Palestinian civil defense crews have recovered 180 bodies so far from a mass grave inside the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza’s Khan Younis as Israel continues its deadly attacks on Gaza.
“In the hospital courtyard, civil defence members and paramedics have retrieved 180 bodies buried in this mass grave by the Israeli military. The bodies include elderly women, children and young men,” Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reporting from Khan Younis said on Sunday.
The discovery on Saturday, and continuing into Sunday, comes after the Israeli military withdrew its troops from the southern city on 7 April.
In a statement late on Saturday, Palestinian emergency services said: “Our teams continue their search and retrieval operations for the remaining martyrs in the coming days as there are still a significant number of them.”
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, devastated Gaza’s two largest cities and left a swath of destruction across the territory.
