‘Israel’ withholds bodies of 12 Palestinian prisoners died in its jails, PPS says
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Israeli occupation authorities are still withholding the bodies of twelve Palestinian prisoners who died in its prisons under different circumstances, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said on Thursday.
The PPS said that the bodies of 12 Palestinian prisoners who died in Israeli occupation jails are still withheld by Israeli occupation authorities.
The longest withheld body is for the Palestinian prisoner Anis Douleh, who died in 1980, the PPS noted.
The other 11 prisoners include Aziz Ewisat, who died in 2018, Faris Baroud, Nassar Taqatqa, and Bassam Sayeh, who died in 2019, Sadi Gharabli and Kamal Abu Waer, who died in 2020, Sami al-Imour, who died in 2021, Daoud Zubeidi, Mohammad Maher Turkman, and Nasser Abu Hmeid, who died in 2022, and Khader Adnan, who died on May 2, 2023 after three months of hunger strike in protest against his detention.
The mother of Palestinian prisoner Aziz Ewisat, who died in Israeli jails, passed away this morning before seeing her son or even burying him in dignity.
Ewisat was serving a 30-year prison sentence in Israeli occupation jails since 2014. He had a heart attack in 2018, and his… pic.twitter.com/hqG6W32FHH
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Israeli occupation authorities’ practice of confiscating and withholding Palestinian bodies is a violation of international humanitarian law and international human rights law, which include absolute prohibitions on cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, as well as stipulate that parties of an armed conflict must bury the deceased in an honorable way, human rights groups have said.
For families, the practice amounts to collective punishment in violation of international humanitarian law.
