CAIRO/GAZA City, Gaza Strip ¨C The decomposed remains of 112 bodies lay on stretchers shrouded in flags in the sun¡¯s heat: all that could be found of the Al-Hassaynas of Sabra, ?a Palestinian clan of proud Bedouin stock all but wiped out by Israel nearly three years ago.
According to Palestinian authorities, 308 members of the extended Al-Hassayna family, also known as the Abu Sharia, were killed on November 22, 2023 when Israeli airstrikes brought down a cluster of apartment buildings as residents slept in Sabra, one of the old neighborhoods of Gaza City.
Around half of the dead were previously recovered and buried, but 153 bodies had remained under the rubble until now.
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