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Clearing Gaza’s 37.5 million tonnes of rubble could take 14 years



Disease spreads as 10,000 bodies decompose in blown-up buildings

More than 10,000 missing Palestinians are buried under the debris of hundreds of destroyed buildings in Gaza.

“The continued accumulation of thousands of bodies under the rubble has begun to cause the spread of disease and epidemics, especially with the onset of summer and the rise in temperatures, which accelerates the process of decomposition,” it said in a statement.