'Mothers holding their children': Palestinians bury 43 unidentified people

A mass burial was held in Gaza on Saturday for 43 people authorities and citizens have not been able to identify, according to the local government media office. 

Among them were women who were killed while holding their children, mixing their remains together and making it difficult to identify them. 

Other victims included unborn foetuses whose mothers' bodies were torn apart from Israeli shelling, the media office said. There were also dismembered corpses among those buried on Saturday. 

Salam Marouf, the head of the government media office, said sets of family members were put together in one shroud ahead of the mass burial.

It is the second time authorities have been forced to conduct mass burials of unidentified people since 7 October, due to the corpses being placed in morgues for too long without anyone being able to identify them. 

"We took the step to honour the martyrs by burying them," Marouf said in a statement. "Their features began to change in [the morgue]," he added. 

Authorities previously said pictures and forensic analyses of unidentified people are taken before their burial, and their graves are marked, so their families can identify them at a later time. 

Translation: For the second time during the aggression, approximately 43 victims of the assault against Gaza were buried anonymously in the emergency cemetery