8,000 bodies still buried under Gaza rubble, with below 1% cleared

More than 8,000 Palestinian bodies are believed to remain buried under rubble in the Gaza Strip, where less than 1% of debris has been cleared after Israel’s two-year war on the enclave, an Israeli media report said Monday, citing a U.N. official. The Haaretz newspaper, citing an unnamed official from the U.N. Development Programme, said the slow pace of debris removal means the process could take up to seven years.