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APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza City, Gaza Strip, August 30, 2026. Members of the Palestinian Civil Defense work with limited resources to search for and recover the bodies of missing people from beneath the rubble of a house belonging to the Ballousha and al-Balawi families in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood after it was destroyed in an Israeli strike during the war.

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  1. 0.1 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Mohammed Abu Dan, Official in charge of body recovery in Gaza City
  2. 0.2 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Ali Hous, Head of the Media Department of the Civil Defense in Gaza City
  3. 0.3 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Hassan Dahlan, Resident
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RESTRICTION SUMMARY: APAwire CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza City, Gaza Strip, August 30, 2026. Members of the Palestinian Civil Defense work with limited resources to search for and recover the bodies of missing people from beneath the rubble of a house belonging to the Ballousha and al-Balawi families in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood after it was destroyed in an Israeli strike during the war. SOUNDBITES: 0.1 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Mohammed Abu Dan, Official in charge of body recovery in Gaza City 0.2 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Ali Hous, Head of the Media Department of the Civil Defense in Gaza City 0.3 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Hassan Dahlan, Resident STORYLINE: Members of the Palestinian Civil Defense worked with limited resources on August 30, 2026, to search for and recover the bodies of missing people from beneath the rubble of a house belonging to the Ballousha and al-Balawi families in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City. The house was destroyed in an Israeli strike during the war. The effort coincided with the International Day of the Disappeared, while an estimated 8,000 Palestinians remain missing under the rubble of homes and destroyed buildings across the Gaza Strip, according to Civil Defense and official human rights bodies.

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Gaza Strip Gaza City Palestine Gaza Governorate PALESTINIANS destruction

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Mohammed Dahlan

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