Gaza Strip, Feb. 14 -- About 8,000 bodies are still buried beneath the rubble of destroyed buildings across the Gaza Strip despite ongoing recovery efforts, according to the territory's Civil Defence.

In a statement on Thursday, February 12, spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said search and rescue teams continue to operate in extremely difficult conditions with limited resources, hampering access to many disaster sites, the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reported.

He said the lack of heavy equipment and technical capabilities remains a major obstacle to retrieving victims.

Basal said more than 3,000 people are still missing, with no confirmed information about whether they are alive, killed or detained. He also noted that hundreds of bo...