Amman Sept. 6 (Petra) — Palestinians on Sunday buried the bodies of
nearly 100 people, most of them children and women, at the Martyrs’
Cemetery in the Zeitoun neighborhood southeast of Gaza City after
their remains were pulled from the rubble of destroyed homes.

Palestinian sources said the dead, recovered from collapsed buildings
in Zeitoun, belonged to the Malaka, Erheim, Balawi and Salmi
families.

The funeral procession began outside the Imam al-Shafi’i Mosque in
Zeitoun, drawing hundreds of residents and relatives of the dead.

Mourners paid their final respects to the bodies, wrapped in
Palestinian flags, before family members delivered eulogies.

The procession then moved to the neighborhood’s cemetery near the
al-Ahli Arab Hospital, where the bodies were laid in mass graves.

Local emergency teams, working with the International Committee of
the Red Cross, recovered the bodies using bulldozers, trucks and
heavy lifting equipment to clear rubble from homes destroyed during
Israel’s war of genocide on Gaza, which began Oct. 7, 2023.

//Petra// NQ