Palestinians inspect a destroyed mosque following an Israeli air strike July 28 in the Gaza Strip. Mourners gathered at a funeral Tuesday in Gaza City for 112 members of an extended family killed in a 2023 Israeli attack. Photo by Mohammed Saber
Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Hundreds gathered Tuesday in Gaza City to mourn more than 100 people killed in 2023 in one of the deadliest Israeli military strikes of the war.
The 112 coffins, each covered with a Palestinian flag, contained mostly the remains of those from a single extended family group -- the Hassayna and Abu Sharia clan. About 40 were children.
"O nation, why are children getting killed in Gaza?" said Mahmoud Basal, spokesman of Gaza's Civil Defense, at the funeral. "Why are women getting killed in Gaza? Why are massacres committed against innocents in Gaza?"
Mourners scattered flower petals over the bodies and prayed for the dead before they carried the coffins to their burial site.
