ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
Loading banners
NEWS EXPRESS is Nigeria’s leading online newspaper. Published by Africa’s international award-winning journalist, Mr. Isaac Umunna, NEWS EXPRESS is Nigeria’s first truly professional online daily newspaper. It is published from Lagos, Nigeria’s economic and media hub, and has a provision for occasional special print editions. Thanks to our vast network of sources and dedicated team of professional journalists and contributors spread across Nigeria and overseas, NEWS EXPRESS has become synonymous with newsbreaks and exclusive stories from around the world.
The huge rubble from which the 30 bodies were recovered
Civil defence teams retrieved the bodies of 30 victims from the same family on Tuesday from the rubble of their house in western Gaza City.
The victims were members of the Salem family, who were killed on Dec. 19, 2023, in an Israeli airstrike on their house in the al-Rimal neighbourhood in Gaza City, the Civil Defence said in a statement.
Sixty family members are believed to have been killed in the attack.
The house was the first site included in an organized campaign launched by the Civil Defence to search for thousands of Palestinians believed to be trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings in the Gaza Strip.
Search operations will continue using limited equipment, including an excavator, to recover the bodies from the rubble, said the agency.
Israel occupies more than half of Gaza and continues to target Palestinians in other areas outside its control, according to Palestinian authorities.
Israel has killed nearly 70,700 victims, mostly women and children, and injured more than 171,000 in Gaza since October 2023, and reduced the enclave to rubble. (Anadolu Agency)
