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Article by Khaled El-Hissy for The Electronic Intifada documenting the fate of Palestinians killed and disappeared under the rubble during Israel's genocide in Gaza, examining the body-return process under the October 2025 ceasefire. Per the ceasefire agreement, Israel was to hand over bodies at a ratio of 15 Palestinians for every Israeli. As of January 2026, Gaza's Ministry of Health had received 345 bodies, of which only 99 had been identified. The article explains the forensic identification process, which examines cause of death, time of death, injury types, and physical features, alongside a mass burial of 15 unidentified Palestinians in Khan Younis in December 2025. Recommended for forensic researchers, legal scholars, and human rights advocates documenting the scale of unidentified Palestinian deaths and the body-recovery process under the ceasefire, providing important primary data on the identification of the disappeared.
