GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) -- Families in Gaza City have held a mass funeral for 105 Palestinians, including 37 children and 38 women, whose bodies had been buried beneath the ruins of 16 residential buildings in the Al-Taj area for nearly three years.
Civil Defense crews, backed by Egyptian and International Committee of the Red Cross teams, recovered the remains during a 17-day search through the rubble.
Hundreds of mourners prayed over the Palestinian flag-draped remains before their burial in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood on Thursday, a day after families held a candlelit vigil at the Yarmouk site where their relatives were killed.
Israeli warplanes destroyed the buildings that held 138 apartments on October 25, 2023, while bombing residential blocks in the city’s Yarmouk area. Among the 105 killed were 37 children and 38 women, whose families waited nearly three years to lay them to rest.
Taghreed al-Hanawi lost her daughter, physician Alia Ramzi al-Hanawi, along with her son-in-law and four grandchildren. 
“Their family was completely erased from the civil registry,” she told Anadolu Agency. “Today the wound has reopened, but at last I was able to hold their remains and bury them with dignity.”
Fawaz Ziyara, a survivor who lost relatives in the attack, said around 300 people were killed when the block was hit, adding that more bodies and missing people are still under the rubble. 
Mamdouh Atallah, who attended the funeral, put the death toll from the strike at around 450, among them children, women and elderly people.
At a Civil Defense press conference, relatives representing around 20 families pleaded for heavy machinery to reach the bodies still buried at the site, equipment that Israel’s siege on Gaza continues to keep out of the strip.
Civil Defense crews said they have pulled more than 630 bodies and human remains from the ruins of Gaza’s buildings since November 2025, while Palestinian authorities estimate that more than 8,000 people are still entombed beneath the rubble.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces continued atrocities across Gaza and the occupied West Bank. 
Palestinian, Ibrahim Abu Oweimer, was killed Friday evening when an Israeli drone struck the Abu Oweimer family home in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza. 
Another Palestinian, Ibrahim Munir al-Masri, was killed and others injured in an Israeli drone strike near the Ansar intersection west of Gaza City.
Three Palestinians, including a girl and an elderly woman, were injured by Israeli gunfire in the Al-Mawasi area and near Hamad City northwest of Khan Younis. 
Israeli military vehicles opened heavy fire on residential areas and tents sheltering displaced people in northern, eastern, and southern Khan Younis, while Israeli warships fired on the Khan Younis coast. 
Israeli forces also carried out a major demolition operation targeting homes and buildings in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City, and conducted large-scale demolitions south of Khan Younis.
In Awarta, southeast of Nablus, settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles and abducted a 17-year-old youth. Israeli forces raided the town, and the Red Crescent treated five cases of tear gas suffocation, including a 70-year-old woman.
In Nablus governorate, three Palestinians were injured when settlers, under Israeli military protection, assaulted farmers during the olive harvest in Beita, Jama’in, Awarta, Osarin, Beit Furik, and Deir Sharaf. 
Israeli forces fired sound bombs and toxic gas toward citizens and solidarity activists. In Beita, settlers fired live ammunition at farmers during the olive harvest.
In Salfit governorate, settlers and Israeli forces prevented farmers from harvesting olives in Deir Istiya and forced farmers from their land in Farkha and Haris. Israeli forces detained three farmers from Haris while they were harvesting.
In Ramallah, Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian woman at the entrance of Al-Mughayyir village. In Jenin, Israeli forces stormed Zababdeh, raided homes, and arrested Muhammad Abdul Karim Turkman, and launched an arrest campaign targeting workers in Bartaa. 
In occupied Al-Quds, Israeli forces obstructed the olive harvest in Silwan, preventing residents from entering lands in Wadi al-Rababa and seizing harvesting tools and crops.