Ramallah – Together The National Campaign to Recover the Bodies of the Detained Martyrs and Reveal the Fate of the Missing Persons said that the Israeli occupation authorities continue to detain the bodies of 500 martyrs in the number cemeteries and refrigerators, including the bodies of 58 martyrs, since the beginning of this year 2024.
The campaign said in a statement issued today, Thursday, that the occupation authorities released the bodies of 4 martyrs last April: Wassim Abu Al-Haija from Tamra, who was martyred on January 29, 2024, and Abdel Rahim Amer from Qalqilya, who was martyred on January 13. 4/2024, and the martyrs Abdul Rahman Maher Bani Fadel and Muhammad Ashraf Bani Jami’ from Aqraba, south of Nablus, who were martyred on 4/15/2024.
The campaign pointed out that this crime of the occupation authorities continuing to detain the bodies of Palestinian martyrs in the cemeteries of numbers and refrigerators is a violation of the principles of international humanitarian law and relevant international norms, as the doors of the judiciary in the occupying state are almost closed in the face of the families of the martyrs, after we have witnessed in the years The latter is the collusion of the judiciary with the security and political levels to approve the permissibility of holding bodies as hostages and bargaining chips in the case of Israeli soldiers detained in the Gaza Strip.
Detaining the bodies in the cemeteries of numbers and the occupation’s refrigerators constitutes an affront to the human dignity of a person, during his life and after his death, and a collective punishment that calls out the national and international position to demand the return of the bodies of these martyrs, and to enable their families to rebury them in a manner befitting human dignity. We call on all human rights defenders to pressure the occupation to release them. Regarding the bodies of the Palestinian martyrs, it is shameful for the world to remain silent about the punishment of a person even after his death.
Source: Maan News Agency