GAZA CITY, Palestine 

The medical teams on Tuesday recovered the bodies of 14 Palestinians after the Israeli military vehicles withdrew from the southeastern parts of Gaza City.

According to eyewitnesses, the Civil Defense teams recovered 14 bodies from the roads and under the rubble of destroyed homes in the Tal al-Hawa area in Gaza City.

The Israeli firing and shelling on the area have hindered the teams from recovering more bodies, witnesses added.

Meanwhile, the Civil Defense also said its teams recovered three bodies from under the rubble of a destroyed home for the Ghabayen family in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, eastern Gaza City, following an Israeli airstrike.

Further Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling across the Gaza Strip left other Palestinians killed and injured, along with destruction in the residential areas.

Israel has continued its brutal offensive on Gaza following the Oct. 7 Hamas incursion, despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire.

More than 36,500 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, the vast majority being women and children, and nearly 83,000 others injured, according to local health authorities.

Nearly eight months into the Israeli war, vast swathes of Gaza lay in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water, and medicine.

Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, which in its latest ruling has ordered Tel Aviv to immediately halt its operation in Rafah, where over a million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.

*Writing by Ahmed Asmar in Ankara