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10. Gazan families face painful process of identifying Palestinian bodies returned by Israel
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 08:57 PM
Nov 3

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/10/28/gazan-families-face-painful-process-of-identifying-palestinian-bodies-returned-by-israel_6746868_4.html#

"Lacking access to advanced forensic technology, medical examiners have to rely on the vigilance of the families of the missing to identify their loved ones, as Israel returned the bodies without any information about their identities.


Palestinians watch a screen displaying the examination of the bodies of prisoners returned by Israel, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, October 21, 2025. JEHAD ALSHRAFI / AP

It is 2 pm in the waiting room of the orange-colored building at Nasser Hospital. A grim screening is coming to an end. Since 9 am, dozens of families from Gaza have sat on rows of plastic chairs, solemn and focused, watching a screen that shows photographs of decomposing, unrecognizable, sometimes dismembered, blinded, toothless bodies frozen in grotesque postures. These are the corpses of Palestinian detainees returned by Israel in exchange for Israeli hostages, as part of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas signed on October 10. In total, 400 bodies are expected to be returned..."

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