{"id":4283,"date":"2025-04-23T06:28:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T06:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/?p=4283"},"modified":"2025-04-23T06:28:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T06:28:33","slug":"gaza-destruction-of-vital-lifting-gear-halts-search-for-thousands-buried-under-rubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/?p=4283","title":{"rendered":"Gaza: Destruction of vital lifting gear halts search for thousands buried under rubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Families in Gaza were holding on to the slim chance of finding loved ones buried under the ruins of destroyed homes \u2013 but that hope is fading fast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The destruction of key heavy machinery on Tuesday following reported Israeli airstrikes has brought rescue and recovery efforts to a standstill, making it even harder to reach the estimated 11,000 bodies still trapped under the debris.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">According to local authorities, the strikes put a halt to all solid waste and debris removal operations, UN Spokesperson St\u00e9phane Dujarric told journalists at a briefing in New York.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Until recently, bulldozers and other excavation equipment had been used in painstaking efforts to recover bodies from the wreckage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One bulldozer operated by Atif Nasr \u2013 who before the war worked building and repairing roads \u2013 had become vital in the grim task of extracting the remains of loved ones from the rubble.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He was interviewed by a UN News correspondent in Gaza before the strike but now his grim but vital work has come to a standstill after his vehicle was destroyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families in Gaza were holding on to the slim chance of finding loved ones buried under the ruins of destroyed homes \u2013 but that hope is fading fast. The destruction of key heavy machinery on Tuesday following reported Israeli airstrikes has brought rescue and recovery efforts to a standstill, making it even harder to reach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-english-gate"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4285,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions\/4285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}