Israel’s removal of Gaza rubble is 'moral execution' of thousands still missing: Rights center
The Palestinian Center for Missing and Forcibly Disappeared Persons has condemned the Israeli regime’s unauthorized clearance of debris across the Gaza Strip, calling the operation the moral execution of thousands of missing Palestinians still buried under the rubble.
Israeli forces destroyed about 90 percent of Gaza’s buildings during nearly two years of bombardment that began in October 2023, leaving thousands of Palestinians trapped beneath the wreckage.
When a US-brokered ceasefire took hold and Israeli attacks eased, families and rescue crews finally began searching the ruins for the missing.
In the first 24 hours alone, Gaza Civil Defense recovered 151 bodies. Some had decomposed entirely and were reduced to skeletal remains. Recovery work has continued since, with more bodies gradually pulled from sites flattened in the early waves of Israeli bombing.
On Sunday, the center expressed deep concern and strong condemnation of what it described as systematic Israeli operations to dismantle and haul away rubble from destroyed neighborhoods.
It warned that the campaign is a deliberate attempt to wipe out the forensic evidence needed to determine the fate of the missing.
The center said the work is not a humanitarian effort to recover victims. It is, rather, an attempt to crush what remains of their bodies.
By bulldozing ruined sites and mixing human remains with debris, the Zionist forces are making future DNA testing and identification nearly impossible, it said.
Israeli forces are erasing evidence that could one day be used against them, the Center added. It called on the international community, especially the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to intervene immediately and compel the Israeli regime to halt demolition and debris-removal operations in every area where missing persons are believed to lie.
The center estimates that about 7,000 Palestinians remain missing, including some 4,000 to 5,000 still buried under the rubble and beyond recovery.
Meanwhile, a mass funeral was held in Gaza City on Sunday for 100 victims recovered from homes and buildings destroyed during the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza. Thousands gathered in the az-Zeitoun neighborhood as Civil Defense teams laid to rest remains retrieved in recent search operations across areas of widespread destruction.
According to local sources, around 70 of those buried were children, a scene that underscored the scale of the slaughter in the Strip.
The Israeli genocidal war on Gaza has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians and wounded 173,000 others, most of them women and children.
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