Gaza City is preparing on Tuesday for the mass funeral of 112 Palestinians from the Abu Sharia and Al-Hasayna families, in what Palestinian sources describe as one of the largest funerals held in the Gaza Strip since the war began.
According to the announced information, the bodies were recovered from a single site. The combined death toll and number of people still missing from the two families at that location stands at 308, making it one of the deadliest incidents resulting from Israeli bombardment of the territory.
The funeral is expected to draw large crowds of relatives and local residents amid deep grief across the Gaza Strip, as search efforts continue to recover missing people and bodies from beneath the rubble in heavily destroyed areas.
The funeral comes months after rescue teams were unable to reach the site because of intense military operations and widespread destruction. Civil defence and rescue crews were only recently able to recover some of the bodies for burial.
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