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Some recovered bodies at al-Shifa Hospital found ‘without heads’

The vast majority of the 49 Palestinian bodies so far recovered from the grave in al-Shifa Hospital were decomposed.

Gaza’s Government Media Office has confirmed they found bodies without heads. That’s absolutely terrifying and gives a clear reflection about what was happening inside the compound [during the Israeli raid].

That brings the total number of recovered bodies to 520 bodies that have been recovered from al-Shifa Hospital, Nasser Hospital in the south alongside Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern parts of the territory.

It’s absolutely terrifying as Israeli bombardments across the territory have not stopped in the last 24 hours.

People buried alive at al-Shifa Hospital: Gaza health official

Motasem Salah, director of the Gaza Emergency Operations Centre, says medics recovered more than 50 bodies from the mass grave at the medical complex since Tuesday.

“There were also bodies in the reception and emergency department. Part of the department was completely demolished, and the rubble and debris were moved over the patients,” Salah said in a video message.

“The bodies we found were on beds at the reception and emergency department, meaning Israel destroyed the department over the heads of sick and injured people – and they were buried alive.”