Gaza’s civil defence agency has provided an update on the situation in the besieged Strip, Al Jazeera reports:

• 99 of its rescuers were killed in Israeli attacks and 319 wounded, including dozens who sustained permanent injuries.

• 27 members have been detained by Israeli forces and their fate remains unknown.

• Civil defence crews recovered more than 97,000 injured Palestinians from bombed sites throughout the 15-month invasion.

• About 2,840 bodies “evaporated without a trace” from Israeli weapons that unleashed temperatures between 7,000-9,000 degrees Celsius — “melting all at the centre of the explosion”.

• The search for more than 10,000 bodies buried under the rubble of houses and buildings is now underway. These have not been recorded in official statistics.