Media Office in Gaza calls for forming an international investigation committee into the occupation’s kidnapping of the bodies of martyrs

Occupied Al-Quds, (ST) – The Media Office in Gaza Strip stressed that the Israeli occupation’s handing over of the bodies of dozens of martyrs in a state of complete decomposition is a crime against humanity. It called on the international community to condemn this brutal crime.

The Media Office clarified in a statement on Monday that this new crime against humanity is added to a series of crimes committed by the occupation against the Palestinians after the United States of America gave it the green light to practice killings against the residents of the Strip. It called on international and UN organizations to condemn this brutal crime.

The media office added: Exhuming graves, removing the bodies of martyrs, transporting them to unknown locations, and stealing their organs is considered a war crime and a crime against humanity punishable by international laws.

The office referred that the occupation has repeated this crime more than once during the genocide war, and previously exhumed graves in Khan Yunis, Jabalia, and the Tuffah neighborhood and stole some of the bodies of martyrs from them, in addition to the fact that it still holds dozens of bodies.

The media office called on various international organizations to form a completely independent international investigation committee into the occupation’s kidnapping of the bodies of martyrs and the theft of their vital organs.

Yesterday, the occupation  handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza the bodies of 84 martyrs whom it killed during its ongoing aggression on the Strip for the 304th day, and held their bodies and buried them in a mass grave in the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Raghda Sawas