Thousands of Palestinians buried under rubble in Gaza 'may never be identified', says Red Cross Submitted by MEE staff on Sun, 06/14/2026 - 12:26 Gaza's 61.5 million tonnes of debris is 20 times more than all conflict-generated rubble in the strip since 2008 A boy walks through the rubble of a building that was destroyed following Israeli bombardment at the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on 12 June 2026 (Eyad Baba/AFP) Off Thousands of Palestinians trapped beneath the rubble in Gaza may never be identified, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has warned, citing slow recovery efforts and the large number of bodies yet to be retrieved, The Guardian reported on Sunday. "There is no doubt that these bodies could soon become difficult to identify," Pat Griffiths, the ICRC spokesperson in Jerusalem, told the British newspaper. "The longer it takes for human remains to be recovered, the more difficult it can be to identify them.