Israeli occupation detains 552 bodies of Palestinian martyrs
OCCUPIED AL-QUDS, (St)_Today, the Prisoners’ Institutions and the National Campaign to Recover the Bodies of Martyrs said that the Israeli occupation authorities continue to detain 552 bodies, including 256 in the numbered cemeteries, in addition to hundreds from the Gaza Strip.
This came in a joint statement issued by the Palestine Prisoners Society (PPS), the Detainees and Ex-detainees Commission, the Damir Foundation for Human Rights, and the National Campaign to Recover the Bodies of Martyrs on the occasion of the National Day for Recovering Bodies, which falls on the 27th of August of each year.
The institutions indicated that “the number of bodies being held has reached 552 people in the numbered cemeteries and refrigerators, including 256 in the numbered cemeteries, including 296 since the return of the detention policy in 2015.”
It added that among the detained bodies are 9 women, 32 prisoners, 55 children under the age of 18, 5 people from the 1948 territories, and 6 people from Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.”
The statement said: “Since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7, the occupation has escalated the detention of bodies, as it is holding 149 bodies, and this number constitutes more than half of the people detained since 2015, noting that this data does not include the martyrs detained from the Gaza Strip.”
It went on to say: “The number of people detained from Gaza by the occupation is estimated at hundreds, but there is no official statement from the occupation about the actual number of bodies of martyrs from Gaza to date.”
In the same context, it was reported that dozens of Palestinians and families of martyrs, whose bodies are being held by the Israeli occupation participated today in protests in the cities of Ramallah, Jenin and Nablus in the West Bank, under the slogan “We have names and we have a homeland” to demand the return of the bodies.
The participants in the protests, which were organized on the occasion of the National Day for the Retrieval of Bodies, carried pictures of the martyrs whose bodies are being held, and chanted slogans denouncing the crime of detaining them and calling for punishing the occupation for its crimes.
They called on the free people of the world and human rights institutions to pressure the occupation to hand over the bodies of the martyrs held in its refrigerators and in the so-called “cemeteries of numbers.”
Source: WAFA
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