Updated on January 20, 2025 at 7:03 pm EST
Monday marked the second day of the ceasefire in Gaza, and Palestinians began the work of digging through the rubble in search of the 10,000 bodies that are estimated to be buried under the buildings that were destroyed by Israel’s bombing campaign.
“We are searching for 10,000 martyrs whose bodies remain under the rubble,” Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defense, told Reuters. Basal said at least 2,840 bodies were melted, and there were no traces of them.
Medical sources told Al Jazeera that 135 bodies were found in the destroyed southern city of Rafah. Gaza’s Health Ministry said in its daily update that hospitals received 122 bodies in the previous 24 hours, including 62 who were dug out of the rubble.
The ministry said that the death toll since October 2023 has reached 47,035, and the number of wounded had climbed to 111,091. The ministry counts dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals, meaning each body dug out of the rubble will be added to its death toll.
A recent study published by The Lancet found the Health Ministry’s death toll was a significant undercount, likely by 41%, and the true number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli military is likely over 70,000. The number doesn’t include indirect deaths caused by the siege and the destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure.
According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, two Palestinian civilians, including a boy, were killed by IDF snipers in Rafah despite the ceasefire. Later in the day, another child was killed by an Israeli sniper in Rafah. Ten Palestinians were also wounded as a result of Israeli gunfire.
Under the ceasefire deal, aid deliveries have stepped up, with the UN saying 630 trucks entered Gaza on Sunday and 915 entered on Monday. Palestinians in Gaza have been celebrating the ceasefire and enjoying the increase in supplies, but many have also returned to their homes to find them in ruins, and it’s unclear when reconstruction can begin.
Israeli officials are also threatening that the genocidal war is not over, suggesting it will restart after the first phase of the ceasefire deal, which involves a 42-day truce during a hostage exchange.
So far, three female Israeli hostages have been released by Hamas in exchange for 90 Palestinian women and children who were held in an Israeli military prison in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Yes, I raped your wife and killed your children, but you made me do it.
We'd also accept "It was a accident, we were drunk !"
Such are the standards of a pliable West.
Impotence is taking its toll.
Shear nonsense.
Hi Tim, good morning. 🙂
Perhaps some soul searching is required from you…
It would help us all to have a more productive dialogue!…
I hope they have the time to properly mourn.
They will be on the run from the latest genocidal attack and it will be their own fault. Chosenites can do anything they want and it will always be someone else's fault.
Chosenites have an open ended "justification" to continually steal land. They have bombed 5 nations in recent months.
It was a massacre, which happened on Biden's watch.
It was and it did. Thankfully a recent poll reported that Harris's complicity in the genocide was the leading cause of polled voters not choosing her – ahead of her position on the economy, ~five points behind in second place.
Yes Oct 7 was a massacre.
And what followed was an attempt at genocide making that "massacre" look like child's play.
I sometimes read comments on articles at mainstream sites. There's an awful lot of people making excuses and denying the body count.
They oftentimes blame the victims for being in the way of the terrorists they are trying to kill. They won't tolerate any suggestion that they are not justified in the mass killing of innocents in their quest for retribution for October 7.
I tell them they made a desolation and called it victory. They don't get it.
I tell them October 7 was likely a false flag event. They're not sure what that is, but they are certain that I'm some sort of conspiracy nutcase.
I tell them that probably ten thousand Palestinians are still buried in the rubble. They say maybe a hundred, all deserving of their fates.
I tell them that Israel is not going to rebuild Gaza and invite the Palestinians back…they're going to keep it for themselves. I don't know what I'm talking about, say they.
There's no evil like blind evil. The righteous can never be guilty but in the eyes of others. The mind can be bent to justify the worst in mankind.
It's nothing new. It's just really bad this time.
Sadly, sometimes, masses of people look for a narrative they like or are more comfortable with, and they choose to look no further on finding it.
It's hard to explain the chosenness thingy. It harkens back to a dark prehistoric demiurge to kill the Other and my god made me do it. It has no place in the 21st Century.
"I tell them October 7 was likely a false flag event." That is just plain stupid. Clearly the attackers on Oct 7 were from Gaza. "I'm some sort of conspiracy nutcase." They got that right.
"I tell them that Israel is not going to rebuild Gaza" Of course not, It is not Israel problem to rebuild Gaza.
"invite the Palestinians back" They did not leave Gaza, so why would they need to invite them back?
It's a matter of which information source is trusted. There's plenty of evidence of Israeli foreknowledge of the October 7 attack, but if a person doesn't bother to look, they will never know.
If a person trusts Western mainstream legacy media to present all sides of the story, then that person is not very inquisitive, and naively trusts the word of the establishment press to be completely factual.
I've dragged many people out of the darkness of a mind closed to alternative information. That's been happening for decades. By now, almost everyone should have caught up and come to the realization that what is presented in the major media does not represent complete and factual truth. Therefore, I am reluctant to engage with persons expousing faith in mainstream information.
I could go into a detailed rant regarding my suspicions regarding October 7, but the information is out there and not that tough to find.
9/11 was used as an excuse to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. I personally don't believe that two skyscrapers are going to fall straight down at near the speed of gravity because they were penetrated by an airliner. Back then most people put me in the conspiracy nut category, something I've never been ashamed of. Nowdays it's not hard to find people who believe as I do. They have learned to investigate for themselves and determine which information seems trustworthy.
Over the years, I've come to see establishment media as the controlled gatekeepers they are.
Israel is using October 7 as an excuse to get their brutal war on. It's not a huge jump in reasoning to suspect that Israel let October 7 happen, or even made it happen. After all, Israel is the kind of nation that would slaughter innocents with bombs and seize their lands. Creating a false attack to get that started does not seem out of the realm of possibility.
I doubt that Israel will build back Gaza without allowing new settlements. The Palestinians will continue to be cleansed from the population, pushed away or concentrated in camps. Israel will move in, and take over Gaza. Read the things Isreali leadership have been saying, and it seems clear.
No one knows the exact truth about anything that they are not directly involved in. I enjoy speculating about the future using the information available. It could turn out that Israel will return to their borders and allow the Palestinians to rebuild their Gaza, but I would not bet on it. This is about Greater Israel, and they're just getting started.
Look it up.
The problem with cleansing Gaza is there is nowhere to send the Palestinians to. And even after the fall of Syria, there still isn't any realistic destination for them. Sending them North over the border will merely turn the Palestinians into a more potent fighting force. That is why Israel needs to take down Iran.
"I tell them October 7 was likely a false flag event." That is just plain stupid. Clearly the attackers on Oct 7 were from Gaza.
You're right, it wasn't a false flag operation. It was a prison uprising that Israel flat out let happen in order to do exactly what they are doing.
The death toll from the genocide is more likely in the hundreds of thousands.
Whatever it is… did not make Israel achieve its goals in Gaza…! Israel is defeated in Gaza… Now you hear news of transporting (since Israel won't be able to kill everyone) Gazans to a third country while Gaza is being rebuild…! Yes, for sure…! That's a one way ticket…! No Palestinians would accept it…!
I'm thinking 1.1 million, but I'm terrible in math. Also, my math could have been worse because I was trying to go without water and food for 16 months. But the biggest problem with my math is that I couldn't get somebody to rain 2000 pound bombs on my head all day long.
”Inch by inch and row by row, gonna make this garden grow! All I need is a rake and hoe! Till the rain comes tumbling down!…”