United Nations: Israel’s destruction of rescue equipment undermines the hopes of finding buried under the rubble – the seventh day

The United Nations said that the families of the Gaza Strip were sticking to their hope to find their loved ones buried under the rubble of destroyed houses, but this hope is diminishing quickly.

UN spokesman Stephen Dujarric said at a press conference that the destruction of Israeli heavy heavy equipment, on Tuesday, has stopped rescue and recovery efforts, which increased the difficulty of reaching an estimated 11,000 bodies still stuck under the rubble, according to the United Nations.

Dujarik explained that the Israeli raids caused all solid waste removal and rubble, after destroying bulldozers and other drilling equipment that were until recently used in strenuous efforts to recover the bodies from under the rubble.

The United Nations estimates that about 92 percent of all residential buildings in Gaza (about 436,000 homes) have been damaged or destroyed since the beginning of the war in October 2023.
The size of the resulting rubble is about 50 million tons, which is a huge amount of rubble that will take decades in the current circumstances.

Humanitarian organizations warn that the delay in removing rubble and recovering corpses does not deepen psychological shock only throughout Gaza, but also threatens to turn into a health and environmental catastrophe.

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