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Growing risk that thousands buried in Gaza’s rubble may never be identified, says Red Cross

By Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem and Seham Tantesh in Gaza

Exclusive: Recovery efforts remain slow and passing of time makes it more likely they will be skeletonised The International Committee of the Red Cross has said the risk that the thousands of Palestinians buried beneath Gaza’s rubble may never be identified is increasing by the day, as recovery efforts remain slow and many victims have yet to be retrieved, the Guardian can reveal. “There is no doubt that these bodies could soon become difficult to identify,” said Pat Griffiths, the ICRC spoke...