A Gaza civil defence spokesperson said on Monday that heavy equipment is needed to recover the bodies from under the rubble, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. 

“The remnants are ticking time bombs and pose a danger to the population in the Gaza Strip. We need specialists alongside the teams working in the sector,” he said. 

The Palestinian Ministry of Health and the civil defence estimate that about 10,000 people are still buried in the rubble in Gaza.  

A preliminary United Nations assessment of the damage in Gaza said that about 175,000 structures were destroyed, leaving behind over 53 million tonnes of rubble.