Israel's ban on heavy equipment entering Gaza delays recovery of detainees' bodies

The government media office in Gaza said on Friday that Israel's prevention of the entry of heavy equipment into the Gaza Strip to remove tons of rubble left by the war will hinder the recovery of the bodies of Israeli detainees who are supposed to be handed over under the ceasefire agreement.

Head of the Government Media Office, Salama Maarouf, said in a press conference: “Preventing the entry of heavy equipment and machinery needed to remove 55 million tons of rubble means the inability to remove the bodies of the martyrs and open the streets, and will undoubtedly affect the resistance’s ability to extract the dead prisoners who were bombed by the occupation from under this rubble.”