HEBRON, January 7, 2017 (WAFA) – Hundreds of people participated on Saturday in the funerals of Mohammad Rajabi, 16, and Hatem Shalloudi, 26, whose corpses Israel returned the night before to their families for burial in Hebron.
Rajabi was shot dead by Israeli soldiers in Tel Rumeida in Hebron on September 16 claiming he attempted to carry out a stabbing attack, and Shalloudi was also killed in Hebron the next day under the same pretext. Their corpses had been held since then.
Israel holds bodies of alleged attackers as a punishment to their families and only recently began releasing most of them.
It is still holding bodies of seven Palestinians from the West Bank and East Jerusalem, all killed in alleged attacks against Israelis last year.
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