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Photos: Gaza holds funeral for 100 Palestinians recovered from rubble

Gaza families hold mass funeral for 100 people recovered from rubble in Zeitoun neighbourhood.

Mass funeral Gaza — Mass funeral for Palestinians recovered from beneath the rubble in Gaza [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]

By Anadolu, AP and Reuters

Palestinians have held a funeral procession for 100 people whose bodies were recovered from beneath the rubble of destroyed homes in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood.

Thousands of Palestinians, including relatives of the victims, attended the procession on Sunday. The remains were laid out near the ruins of the homes and draped in Palestinian flags.

The victims, from the Rahim, Balawi, Malaka, Qanbour and Salmi families, were killed when Israeli forces struck several residential homes around two and a half years ago, according to local authorities.

Similar mass recovery operations in recent weeks have retrieved more than 100 bodies from the Abu Shariah and Hassaniya families killed in a single strike, and more than 500 from the al-Taj Tower site, officials and activists said.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 73,651 Palestinians have been killed and 174,592 injured since October 2023.

Mourners gather around the flag-draped bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes during the war with Hamas, whose remains were recently recovered from the rubble, in Gaza City — Many of the dead came from the extended Malaka family, which alone lost 55 members, along with the Balawi, Salmi and other Zeitoun neighbourhood families. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]

The victims, all from one Palestinian family, had been sheltering at their family home when Israel hit it.

The bodies of Palestinians who lost their lives in overnight Israeli airstrikes are seen during a funeral ceremony in Gaza City, Palestine, on June 04, 2026. At least 10 Palestinians, including a mother, father and their three children from the same family, lost their lives and 20 others were injured in Israeli attacks that targeted different areas of the city despite a ceasefire. The victims were brought from Al-Shifa Hospital for burial following funeral prayers. Photojournalist:Saeed M. M. T. Jaras

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CATANIA, ITALY - JUNE 01: On board a dinghy, the activists of the Freedom Flotilla reach the ship Madleen to set sail for Gaza, while the crowd on the quay cheers and waves flags in solidarity on June 01, 2025 in Catania, Italy. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is among those who will attempt to sail to Gaza on a boat organized by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), in a bid to break Israel's blockade of the Palestinian territory. Freedom Flotilla had to abort a previous journey in early May after it said its boat came under attack by drones in international waters near Malta. (Photo by Fabrizio Villa/Getty Images)