Searching through the rubble of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Palestinian Gaza on November 1, the day after the Israeli military's October 31, 2023 airstrike, Palestinians retrieved the bodies and gave them a mass burial in the earth.

 　In the Israeli-Palestinian war, Palestinians retrieved corpses and gave them mass burials in the soil after searching through the rubble of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, Palestine, on November 1, the day after the October 31, 2023 air strike by the Israeli military. Palestinians and rescue workers searched the victims, some using their hands to scoop out the rubble.

　On October 27, 2023, Israeli forces began a ground operation against the Hamas militia, and on October 31, shelling collapsed in the center of the Jabalia refugee camp north of the enclave, like a vortex, literally swallowing everything from surrounding buildings and people. All was gray in Jabalia refugee camp, which was destroyed by powerful Israeli artillery fire on October 31, shattering lives and causing buildings to collapse into gray. A second shelling a few hours later, and at least six shellings so far, hit the Jabalia refugee camp. Many houses in the bombed area, suspected to have had underground tunnels, were completely destroyed when the impact cratered the ground after the attack, washing away the surrounding houses.

　According to the densely populated UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), established shortly after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the Jabalia refugee camp was home to over 100,000 Palestinians, all dependent on humanitarian aid. In the chaos of dust and debris, men and women searched for bodies in the rubble. Few survivors were found; on November 2, the Gaza Ministry of Health announced that 195 people had been killed and 777 injured.

　The shelling of the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip can be considered a war crime because of the number and scale of civilian casualties, the UN human rights office said. Earlier, the Hamas Health Ministry said that prior to the bombardment of Jabalia, at least 8,525 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli forces, 3,542 of them children. Urgent calls for a ceasefire by the UN and aid groups intensified, and the bombing continued despite a UN General Assembly resolution calling for a sustained humanitarian ceasefire by more than 100 countries.

Warning: Search operations continue one day after airstrike on Jabalia refugee camp by MOHAMMED SABER.