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30-10-2025
GAZA STRIP: Palestinians in Gaza are burying dozens of bodies that Israel returned in exchange for the remains of Israeli captives. Many are unrecognizable and display signs of torture and mutilation.
More than two weeks after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect, Palestinians are still struggling to find food, clean water, fuel and reliable shelter as Israel continues to curb aid entering Gaza in defiance of an International Court of Justice ruling.
Palestinians returning to their homes in Gaza are facing danger from unexploded ordnance. At least 53 people have been killed and hundreds injured by explosives left behind by the Israeli military.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 68,527 people and wounded 170,395 since it began in October 2023. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks and about 200 taken captive.
Israeli settler attacks rise 13% in occupied West Bank
Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians have surged with 757 incidents recorded in the first half of 2025, 13% more than the same period last year, according to the UN Human Rights Office.
The violence accompanies rapid settlement expansion. Israeli NGO Peace Now reports 84 new settler outposts were established in the past year in the occupied West Bank, up from the previous year’s 49.
The UN said the attacks, frequently backed by Israeli soldiers are pushing Palestinians off their land as part of Israel’s annexation strategy, which violates international law.
Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, says it will hand over the body of a deceased abductee it recovered on Monday in Gaza at 9pm local time (18:00 GMT).
As part of the US-brokered ceasefire, Hamas has already returned 20 living captives from Gaza and is now trying locate the bodies of others in the war-battered Strip.
Israel says the process is moving too slowly despite the vast destruction making the effort extremely difficult. Israel has now allowed in an Egyptian technical team and heavy equipment to assist the recovery of bodies.
Gaza has been the most “the most dangerous place in the world to be a child” for two years now, the UN’s children agency says.
That’s because of the “sheer numbers of children who’ve been killed and injured, displaced, separated from their families who have lost a loved one”, said Tess Ingram, UNICEF’s spokesperson in Gaza.
“A classroom of children was killed every single day for two years in this conflict, and the scars of what the children have endured will last for many, many years to come,” Ingram told media, speaking from the al-Mawasi area in the south.
Gaza’s Media Office has said about 20,000 children have been killed in Israel’s bombardment since October 2023.
The World Health Organisation says two years of fighting has more than doubled the number of people in Gaza who need mental health care, rising from about 485,000 to more than one million.
Before Israel’s war on Gaza began in October 2023, UNICEF estimated about 500,000 children in Gaza needed mental health and psycho-social support. Now almost all children are in need, it says.
This is one of the most emotional moments for us across the Gaza Strip. This is not the first time we’ve witnessed the return of unidentified bodies during Israel’s war.
We’ve seen families and friends in hospitals and morgues clinging to a fading hope of recognizing a loved one from fragments of their clothing or from their physical features. (Int’l News Desk)
