Gaza Genocide · 04 August, 2026 · 2 min read
Thousands Attend Gaza City Mass Funeral for 112 Abu Sharia and Al-Hasayna Victims
112 family members buried in Gaza City funeral related to Sabra neighborhood strike in 2023. Bodies recovered after two and a half years from Abu Sharia and Al-Hasayna families' rubble.
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Sabra funeral after 112
Thousands of Palestinians gathered in Gaza City on Tuesday to bury 112 members of the Abu Sharia and al-Hasayna families after rescue teams recovered their bodies from the site of a November 2023 Israeli attack in the Sabra neighbourhood.
“Thousands of people gathered on Tuesday to bury the remains of 112 members”
Gaza’s Civil Defence agency said its crews spent two weeks excavating a destroyed residential building in Sabra, eventually retrieving the remains of 112 people, including at least 40 children, and that about 157 people remained missing beneath the rubble.
ABC News & Headlines reported that Gaza’s Civil Defense agency believed more than 150 bodies remained trapped beneath the concrete of the destroyed building and said it retrieved 112 bodies while the rest could not be reached.
The funeral procession included mourners carrying the bodies of 112 Palestinians, including more than 40 children, and some firing weapons into the air as the remains were marched through nearby streets.
Voices call it genocide
Palestinian Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal described the funeral as “set for an exceptional and painful scene,” and Mustafa Barghouti, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, called it potentially “the largest funeral in Palestinian history.”
Al Jazeera also quoted Palestinian researcher Mahmoud Hamed al-Aila saying Gaza was “extracting the bodies of its children from under the rubble after years of genocide,” while activist Mohammed Haniyah said dozens of other bodies have decomposed or are still missing under the rubble.
ABC News & Headlines reported that local leader Nabil Al-Rifi told the broadcaster, “This is the greatest remedy and healing for the people to retrieve their martyrs,” as the mass funeral was held amid debate over the future of Gaza.
In the same ABC account, Yousef Bassam Abu Sharia, spokesperson for the Abu Sharia family, said, “Our message to the world, that cares about humanity, is that our people are facing a genocide until this moment.”
Missing bodies and next steps
The funeral unfolded as Palestinian authorities said about 157 people remained missing, either still beneath the rubble or otherwise unaccounted for, and Al Jazeera reported that more than 8,000 Palestinians are still believed to remain beneath the rubble across Gaza.
“about 157 people remain missing, either still beneath the rubble”
Al Jazeera said the mass funeral was held amid ongoing Israeli violations of a “ceasefire” agreement in October, and it added that as of Monday continued Israeli strikes had killed at least 1,250 Palestinians and injured 4,110 others.
ABC News & Headlines said Gaza’s Civil Defense agency spent “more than a fortnight” digging through what was left of a residential block in Sabra after it was destroyed in an Israeli attack in November 2023, and it reported that “It was 17 days of work, every day eight hours of work.”
The ABC report also said the mass funeral was set against an announcement by Hamas that it was prepared to lay down its weapons after days of deadly attacks by Israeli forces killing around 20 Palestinians, including children, and it described Hamas’ conditions for disarmament as Israel stopping attacks on Gaza and withdrawing its forces from large swathes of territory.