Gaza families bury bodies of loved ones trapped for years under rubble

Jabalia, Gaza Strip – Mahmoud Nabhan, a man in his sixties from Bir an-Naaja in northern Gaza, had waited more than three years for this day. He wanted to give his loved ones a proper burial after 17 members of his family, including his seven children and grandchildren, were killed when their home was targeted 20 days after Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza began in October 2023. Among those killed was Nabhan’s 45-day-old grandchild. After years of searching for their bodies, on Sunday Nabhan was finally able to bury his family members after Civil Defence teams retrieved their remains from the rubble of his home. “All of them were children, all of them were loved ones,” he said.