Civil Defence

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Gaza

Gaza City buries 50 people found after three years in the rubble

Civil Defence crews spent weeks pulling the remains out of five neighbourhoods with a single excavator. Some 8,000 people are still thought to lie under the debris.

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All seven deaths in Gaza's latest count entered against the truceGaza

All seven deaths in Gaza's latest count entered against the truce

The toll since October 2025 rose to 1,273 killed, by exactly the number of bodies hospitals received in a day, while the separate count of recovered bodies did not move at all.

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Civil Defence recovers 12 bodies from rubble in ZeitounGaza

Civil Defence recovers 12 bodies from rubble in Zeitoun

The remains were pulled from beneath a destroyed home south of Gaza City.

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The paramedic who described the dead, and was later counted among themGaza

The paramedic who described the dead, and was later counted among them

Yousef Khalifa worked with the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza.

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