In a grim discovery, the remains of 19 individuals, predominantly women and children, were unearthed from the wreckage of a destroyed residential building in Gaza City. The civil defense made this announcement on Saturday, marking the conclusion of recovery efforts at the site, known as the "Karam" building, which had been under constant search for four consecutive days. The slow, labor-intensive process to recover bodies from beneath the Gaza ruins is hindered by a lack of heavy machinery, leaving rescue teams reliant on rudimentary tools and manual labor. As of now, over 8,000 people are still missing under debris across the territory. Since the ceasefire in October 2022, at least 1,254 people have been killed, 4,121 wounded, and 804 bodies recovered from rubble, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. The overall death toll since October 2023 stands above 73,300, with more than 174,000 wounded. This recovery operation follows a mass funeral held on Tuesday for 112 individuals from the Abu Sharia and al-Hasayna families, whose remains were pulled from the debris of a residential block in Gaza's Sabra neighborhood, destroyed in an Israeli strike in November 2023.