A mass burial was held in Gaza on Saturday for 43 people authorities and citizens have not been able to identify, Middle East Eye reported quoting the local government.
Among them were women who were killed while holding their children, mixing their remains together and making it difficult to identify them.
Other victims included unborn foetuses whose mothers’ bodies were torn apart from Israeli shelling, the media office said.
There were also dismembered corpses among those buried.
Salam Marouf, the head of the government media office, said sets of family members were put together in one shroud ahead of the mass burial.
It is the second time authorities have been forced to conduct mass burials of unidentified people since 7 October, due to the corpses being placed in morgues for too long without anyone being able to identify them.
Hospitals are running out of body bags to keep the mortal remains of the people killed in Israel strikes.
“We took the step to honour the martyrs by burying them,” Marouf said in a statement. “Their features began to change in [the morgue],” he added.
Authorities previously said pictures and forensic analyses of unidentified people are taken before their burial, and their graves are marked, so their families can identify them at a later time.
Meanwhile, the latest data from Palestine’s Ministry of Health said 4385 Palestinians were killed in Gaza, including 1756 children and 967 women, in addition to 13561 wounded since October 7th. 70% of casualties are women, children and elderly.
