(13 Mar 2025)
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Gaza City, Gaza – 13 March 2025
1. Various of civil defense crew recovering bodies from Al-Shifa hospital area
2. 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):
++PART OVERLAID BY PREVIOUS SHOT++
“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 we will now bury them in the Ibn Marwan Cemetery in east Gaza.”
3. Wide of bulldozer removing sand
4. Wide of civil defense crew recovering bodies
5. Wide of people performing funeral prayer on several bodies
6. Mid of people carrying body to vehicle
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Suha al-Shareef, mother of missing son:
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“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.”
8. Various of woman sitting next to bodies on ground
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Abu Selmia, Director of Al-Shifa Hospital:
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“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.”
10. Various 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.
Mohammed Al-Mughayer, the Civil Defense’s Director of Supply and Equipment, explained that up to 40 bodies had been recovered from the makeshift cemetery over the past few days. Approximately another 25 bodies were recovered today.
Al-Mughayer added that rescue crews also uncovered 50 unidentified bodies.
Although many families have found the bodies of their loved ones, a number of people are still searching for the bodies of their family members.
Suha Al-Shareef is the mother of 33-year-old Jihad, who was killed as they attempted to escape shelling.
They wrote his name on his hand to be identified, but Al-Shareef hasn’t found her son’s body yet.
“I don’t know where my son is," said Al-Shareef with tears. "Everyday I come here, and I call out among the graves, searching for my son.”
Akram al-Hatto, from Sheikh Radwan, Gaza city, lost his niece who was killed in January 2024 with her five children and husband.
He said that they couldn’t bury them in the Sheikh Radwan cemetery and instead had to bury them in the hospital area due to heavy shelling and airstrikes.
Mohammed Abu Selmia, Director of Al-Shifa Hospital, said the aim of recovering the bodies from the hospital grounds is to bury them in a more suitable place.
“These martyrs will be transferred to known cemeteries, in order to preserve the dignity of these martyrs," he said.
The process is also necessary because the hospital is "in dire need of this land."
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