“Civil Defence teams are trying to go through as many houses in as many areas as possible where people are still missing,” Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary reports from Maghazi, central Gaza.

Yesterday, they said they were able to retrieve the bodies of 68 Palestinians. But there are at least 11,000 more people unaccounted for and believed to be trapped under the rubble, Khoudary said.

“Emergency teams don’t have the adequate heavy equipment required for their recovery efforts in the vast destruction from Israeli bombardment and have to rely on rudimentary tools.

“In most cases, they are finding only bones or bodies that are unrecognisable. They bury them in areas near their targeted houses. This isn’t a matter of several months — many Palestinians have been trapped under the rubble for more than a year.”