It added that the recovery operations took place during the search operations among the rubble of the two houses, without the statement providing further details about the identities of the remains or the circumstances of the deaths of their owners.
This comes as part of the ongoing search operations under the second phase of the "Recovery of Martyrs' Bodies" project launched by the Civil Defense on July 19, 2023, with the aim of recovering the remains of the missing buried under the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israel, despite the limited capabilities and mechanisms available to the teams.
The second phase includes search operations under the rubble of houses in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, and the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
The recovery operations are proceeding very slowly due to the lack of necessary equipment, despite the ceasefire agreement in effect in Gaza since October 10, 2023, which, according to Palestinian sources, stipulated the entry of heavy equipment and machinery to help remove the rubble and recover the victims.
In October 2023, the Government Media Office announced that the number of Palestinian missing persons since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza had reached about 9,500, including those whose bodies are still under the rubble of destroyed buildings, and others whose fate remains unknown.
The second phase of the "Recovery of Martyrs' Bodies" project is being implemented over 800 working hours and includes the search for the bodies of missing persons under the rubble of 147 destroyed houses in the Gaza, northern, and central governorates, believed to contain 1,072 bodies, according to previous data from the Civil Defense.
The first phase of the project was launched at the end of November 2023, during which about 333 bodies and remains were recovered from 559 missing persons from under the rubble of 54 houses and buildings.
Since October 8, 2023, Israel, with American support, has been committing genocide in Gaza, leaving more than 73,000 Palestinian dead and over 174,000 injured, and destruction that has affected 90 percent of the infrastructure.
