RAMALLAH, Thursday, May 2, 2024 (WAFA) – The National Campaign to Retrieve the Bodies of the Martyrs said that the Israeli occupation authorities continue to withholding the bodies of 500 slain Palestinians who died inside Israeli occupation jails, including the bodies of 58 others since the beginning of 2024.

The campaign considered withholding the bodies of slain Palestinians in the cemeteries and refrigerators as a violation of the principles of international humanitarian law and relevant international norms.

"Withholding the bodies in the cemeteries 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." 

It urgently called on international organizations to demand the resale of the bodies of slain Palestinians in order to enable their families to rebury them in a manner befitting human dignity.

The National Campaign further called on all human rights defenders to pressure the occupation to release them, stressing "it is shameful for the world to remain silent about the punishment of a person even after his death."

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