GAZA, February 19, 2025 (WAFA) – Rescue teams Wednesday recovered the bodies of missing Palestinians in the Tal al-Sultan area, west of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to WAFA correspondent.

He said that rescue workers retrieved the bodies of a father along his son, identified as members of the Abdeen family, from the area after the latter went missing in August 2024.

He added that Israeli occupation forces tore down six houses belonging to the Qishta family in the downtown part of Rafah city.

Israel waged a devastating war on Gaza during the period from 7 October 2023 to 18 January 2025, killing at least 48,291 Palestinians and injuring over 111,722 others.

Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.

Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.

The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.

K.F.