Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and militants, reported Thursday that at least 120 dead bodies had been recovered and registered at hospitals across the Gaza Strip. The overall Palestinian death toll in Gaza exceeds 47,000 people, according to the Health Ministry.

As a tenuous ceasefire takes hold and the extent of the devastation and loss in Gaza begins to emerge, Ashraf Zaqout and his daughter Islam return to what used to be their home in Rafah to search for the body of a missing son.

NBC News filmed grief-stricken Gazan families identifying the bodies of their loved ones, found under the rubble in Rafah and Khan Younis as the ceasefire allowed recovery efforts to be stepped up.