Today, Tuesday, the bodies of dozens of Palestinian dead who were killed and detained by the Israeli army during its ground operation arrived in the Gaza Strip after Tel Aviv released them.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza received the bodies through the Kerem Shalom crossing in the south of the Strip, while the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs took over the process of burying them in mass graves.

Anatolia News Agency quoted the director of Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah, Marwan Al-Hams, as saying that the United Nations informed them “in advance of the arrival of a number of dead bodies to the Gaza Strip, estimated at about 80 bodies.”

He added: "The bodies of dozens of dead arrived inside a container. Some of them had complete bodies, others had body parts, and some had parts of their bodies decomposed."

He explained that the container "emanates a strong odor that may cause epidemics if these bodies are exhumed in a densely populated area."

He stated that "the bodies are scheduled to be transferred to the cemetery to be counted and this crime documented through the Ministries of Health and Justice."

Earlier, the Ministry of Endowments, in cooperation with the Rafah Municipality, prepared mass graves to bury these detained bodies.

The Israeli war, which has continued since last October 7 against the Gaza Strip, until today, Tuesday, has left 20,915 dead and 54,918 wounded, most of them children and women, massive destruction of infrastructure and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, according to the Strip authorities and the United Nations.

In a related context, activists circulated on social media, during the past two days, pictures that revealed a “tragedy” of dead bodies being decomposed in the public streets in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.

Anatolia reported, citing eyewitnesses and local sources, that these bodies belong to "dead who fell as a result of Israeli attacks since the beginning of the ground operation on the Gaza Strip on October 27 last year."

Eyewitnesses explained that these "bodies remained in the streets since the beginning of this operation until they decomposed without being buried," pointing out "the difficulty of the dead's families or ambulances reaching these areas to recover them due to the intensity of fire at that time."

The circulating pictures showed "corpses, some of them completely decomposed, and human bones lying on the roads and in public streets, with remnants of clothing next to them."

On December 23, eyewitnesses reported that dozens of Palestinian bodies, some of them women and children, were found dumped in the roads after Israeli forces killed them with shells, drone missiles, and sniper rifles with live bullets, in the Tal al-Zaatar area and the vicinity of the Indonesian hospital in Jabalia, after the incursion forces retreated. Of which.

Witnesses said at the time that "the dogs bitten part of the bodies while other parts of them decomposed."