SALFIT, Friday, December 28, 2018 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation authorities handed over the body of Palestinian youth Elyas Saleh Yasin, 22, who was killed by Israeli forces in October, according to the National Campaign to Recover Bodies of Martyrs.

Yasin’s body was released by Israeli military and handed over to the Palestinian Red Crescent near the town of Salfit in the occupied West Bank. He was shot dead by Israeli forces on October 15 outside the village of Hares, near Salfit.

Israeli authorities have escalated the policy of withholding Palestinian bodies killed by Israeli forces, claiming that funerals of Palestinians had provided grounds for “incitement” against Israel.

Dozens of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces are still withheld in Israeli mortuaries despite calls by human rights groups on Israel to release them.

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