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Palestinians still denied heavy equipment to retrieve loved ones buried under rubble

Over and over again, the Palestinian Civil Defence teams in Gaza have been calling on the international community, saying that they need heavy machinery and equipment to retrieve the bodies of Palestinians, or whatever is left of those people, from the rubble.

All of these appeals have been denied or rejected. Nothing that they have asked for entered. We only saw heavy machinery when the Red Cross entered to search for the bodies of Israeli captives.

So we’ve seen an unbalanced approach to the Israeli captives and the Palestinians still trapped underneath the rubble.


Palestinian Civil Defence members recover bodies from the grounds of Salah al-Din Mosque in Gaza City


Anger as MSF agrees to Israel’s ‘unreasonable demands’: What to know

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/26/anger-as-msf-agrees-to-israels-unreasonable-demands-what-to-know

The medical charity Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, says it will provide Israeli authorities with the personal details of some of its Palestinian and international staff working in Gaza and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory.

But critics warn Israel, whose army has killed more than 1,700 health workers – including 15 employees of the charity – during the genocide in Gaza, could use the information to target more humanitarian workers in the besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

MSF said it faced an “impossible choice” to either provide the information or be forced by Israel to suspend its operations.