The World Health Organization (WHO) said that more than 1,000 bodies were lying under the buildings collapsed by Israel’s bombardment in the Palestinian Gaza Strip.

Bodies lying under the rubble were not included in the death toll, the UN affiliate said.

Richard Peppercorn, the World Health Organization representative in Gaza, said on Friday (October 27), “We have estimated that more than 1,000 people are buried under the rubble.” whose identity has not yet been identified.’ But he did not give any more detailed information in this regard.

According to Gaza’s health ministry, three weeks of indiscriminate Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 7,000 Palestinians in the small coastal enclave. With more than 1,000 bodies lying under the rubble, the death toll in Gaza has exceeded 8,000.