00:00The United Nations has called on Israel to allow international investigators into every part of Gaza as human remains continue
00:07to be recovered from the territory's ruins.
00:09The UN Human Rights Office said access to destroyed sites was essential for gathering evidence and identifying victims.
00:17According to the Palestinian civil defense, more than 630 bodies and other remains have been recovered from collapsed buildings since
00:25last November.
00:27The UN also cited an estimate that more than 8,000 people remain missing beneath the rubble.
00:35UN Rights Chief Volker Turk said what appeared to be entire families were being unearthed from locations destroyed in Israeli
00:42attacks,
00:42warning that the remains recovered so far could be only the tip of the iceberg.
00:48He called for forensic evidence and biological samples to be preserved and for burial locations to be recorded.
00:55The UN said the discoveries raised concerns about possible war crimes and other atrocity crimes.
01:02Gaza's Health Ministry says more than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war began.
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