Rally demands Israel releases withheld bodies of Palestinians

Issam Aruri, director of the Al-Quds Legal Aid Center, which spearheads efforts to get Israel to release the bodies, told the rally, which included families of some of those whose bodies are still withheld by Zionist regime, that the regime’s occupation authorities continue to flout all international and humanitarian norms and conventions by continuing to withhold the bodies 90 Palestinians who are kept in morgues and 254 others kept in numbered graves, while 74 are still undocumented.

He said that the Minister of Justice is going to pursue this issue at the United Nations since it is considered a war crime.

The participants stressed the importance of intensifying efforts to force Zionist regime to release the bodies to their families in order to give them a proper burial.

Zionist regime withholds bodies of Palestinians killed by its forces in order to use them as a bargaining chip in future prisoners’ exchange deals.