Hundreds of mourners gathered in Gaza City for a mass funeral for 112 Palestinians, most of them women and children, who were killed in an Israeli air strike on a residential block in the Sabra neighbourhood on 22 November 2023. Their bodies have only just been recovered after a two-week excavation operation, meaning families were unable to bury or properly mourn them for well over a year. The funeral is believed to be the largest of its kind held in Gaza during the war, underlining both the scale of the strike and the immense difficulty of retrieving casualties from destroyed buildings amid ongoing conflict.

Among the dead were 40 children, 38 women and seven people with disabilities from the Abu Sharia and Hassayna families. The strike came six weeks after the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, which killed around 1,200 people and saw 251 taken hostage; the BBC has asked the Israeli military for comment on what was targeted but had not received a response. Gaza's Civil Defence, working under the Hamas-run interior ministry with support and equipment from the International Committee of the Red Cross, carried out the recovery, describing a multi-storey building that had been levelled with most of its roughly 180 occupants killed. According to the Hamas-run health ministry, whose figures the UN considers reliable, at least 73,377 people have died in Gaza since the war began.