JERUSALEM, April 27, 2017 (WAFA) – Israeli police turned over late Wednesday the corpse of Siham Nimr, a 49-year-old Palestinian woman from Shufat refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem shot dead by police in March, for burial by her family.

Police demanded that the burial take place after midnight Wednesday in the presence of a handful of closely related family members and forced the family to pay a $5000 deposit to guarantee that its conditions are met.

Nimr was buried in the camp according to police conditions near her son, Mustafa, who was shot and killed by Israeli forces during an earlier raid on the refugee camp. Police then claimed Musfata attempted to hit them with his car but later retracted it and said he was killed by mistake.

The mother was shot dead outside Damascus Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City around the end of March after she allegedly attacked police officers. She was in the company of her daughter, who was not harmed but arrested by police.

Israel is still  holding corpses of a dozen Palestinians killed in alleged attacks and is stalling in turning them over to their families for burial, a situation described by the families as extremely inhuman and painful.

M.K.