(13 Mar 2025)
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 13 March 2025
1. Various of civil defense crew recovering a body from Al-Shifa hospital area
2. Various of woman sitting next to bodies on ground
3. Various of people carrying body and placing it inside a vehicle
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Al-Mughayer, Civil Defense Director of Supply and Equipment:
“This cemetery, located in the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, contains more than 180 bodies. Up to this moment and over the past few days, up to 40 bodies have been recovered, and today, since this morning, our crews have recovered approximately 25 bodies.”
5. Various of civil defense crew recovering bodies
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Akram al-Hato, relative of killed family members: (uncle of a woman who was killed in January 2024 with her five children and husband and buried in Al-Shifa Hospital area):
“As a result of their martyrdom during the war, we were unable to bury them in the official cemeteries. They were buried in the courtyard of Al-Shifa Hospital. Now, based on instructions from the Civil Defense, they were recovered and the Civil Defense helped us. We will now bury them in the Ibn Marwan Cemetery in east Gaza.”
7. Wide of bulldozer removing sand
8. Various of people recovering a body and placing it in a cart
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Suha al-Shareef, mother of missing son:
“When we returned from displacement, I came quickly the next day, searching. They told me ‘we don’t know’ (where the body of her son is). Some of them (bodies) were taken by the Jews, and the others were buried. I don’t know. I don’t know where my son is. Everyday I come here, and I call out among the graves, searching for my son. Everyday I come here.”
10. Various of bodies being recovered and moved away
11. Wide of people performing funeral prayer on several bodies
12. Various of people carrying and burying the body of Audi Nasrallah, a boy who was suffering from hemiplegia and was killed after suffering from lung problems due to smoke from phosphorus bombs
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fareed Nasrallah, father of killed victim: (father of Audi, who was killed December 2023 during the war and buried at Al-Shifa hospital):
“Today the Ministry of Health asked us on social media to recover all the bodies and corpses inside the Al-Shifa Medical Complex. So, we went today and recovered the body, thank God, and he honored us with a place (a grave inside the cemetery), despite the crowding of the graves due to the large number of martyrs and deaths. God honors us with this place (grave) and the burial took place, thank God.”
14. Various of destruction at Al-Shifa Hospital
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Abu Selmia, Director of Al-Shifa Hospital:
“These martyrs will be transferred to known cemeteries, in order to preserve the dignity of these martyrs, because we are in dire need of this land now to build our field hospitals on it after the occupation completely destroyed the Al-Shifa Medical Complex. As you can see, we are in dire need of every medical bed inside this complex, so we took a step, we and the relevant authorities in Gaza City, to transfer these martyrs to places and cemeteries that are proper for them.”
16. Exterior of destruction at Al-Shifa hospital
STORYLINE:
Civil defense teams in Gaza City recovered about 25 bodies on Thursday from the yards of Al-Shifa Hospital, which had been used as a temporary burial site for more than 180 victims killed by the Israeli army during the stifling siege of the medical complex.
Al-Mughayer added that rescue crews also uncovered 50 unidentified bodies.
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