The Palestinian Center for Missing Persons reported that most of them buried under rubble or in Israeli military concentration areas in the coastal enclave.

Such figures are a humanit rian tragedy that cannot be addressed without urgent international intervention under the supervision of the United Nations and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, it stated.

In this regard, the NGO asked both institutions for heavy equipment and rescue equipment, as well as forensic experts and DNA identification technicians to participate in the search for the thousands of missing.

The Center criticized the international community’s silence in the face of what it called a catastrophe, which it considered an abandonment of the most basic human values.

The continued Israeli bombing, even after US President Donald Trump demanded an end to the attacks on Gaza, directly hampers any humanitarian efforts to recover and identify the bodies, the organization warned.

The organization emphasized the urgent need for technical teams and specialized equipment to help recover the bodies.

Local authorities in the territory are unable to cope with the tens of thousands of tons of debris left by Israeli army incursions, it noted.

In this regard, it warned about the extensive destruction of the Civil Defense system in the Strip as a result of the military attacks.

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