These discoveries took place following several days of bombing and fighting.
Civil defense officials discovered bodies buried in the rubble of collapsed buildings on Friday.
This comes after Israeli troops withdrew from parts of the Tal al-Hawa and Sinaah neighborhoods following days of shelling and fighting. The Israeli military launched an incursion into the neighborhoods earlier this week to combat Hamas militants who had regrouped, it said.
Videos circulating on social media show civil defense workers wrapping bodies, including several women, in blankets in the rubble-strewn streets of Gaza City.
UK-based aid group reports one death
A UK-based aid group said one of its staff in Gaza was killed Friday in an Israeli strike that hit its warehouse located in an Israeli-declared humanitarian safe zone. The strike also killed three staff from other aid groups using the warehouse, the Al-Khair Foundation said in a statement.
The Israeli military claims that Husam Mansour, the Al-Khair Foundation member who was killed, was actually a senior Hamas activist. Israel believes he was using his position within the aid group to raise money for Hamas.
Call for funding for UNRWA
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed for funding Friday for the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, saying it was facing a “deep funding gap”.
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said at the start of the conference that the agency only had enough funds to operate until August.
UNRWA’s 30,000 staff provide education, primary health care and other development activities to some 6 million Palestinian refugees in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
