Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have returned the bodies of two Palestinians who were recently shot and killed by IOF soldiers after allegedly carrying out stabbing attacks to their families on Friday.
According to Quds Press Abu Qaraa and al-Sheikh families had been waiting long hours to receive their sons’ bodies at Ofer military checkpoint east of Ramallah.
However the IOF changed the handover place.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a brief statement that the two killed youths’ bodies were delivered at el-Jeb checkpoint and were then transferred to Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah.
Mu’en Abu Qaraa 23 was killed by Israeli forces last November near the entrance of the illegal Israeli Ofra settlement after he allegedly attempted to carry out a stabbing attack.
Hammad Al-Sheikh 21 was killed by Israeli policemen after carrying out a stabbing attack in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem on Dec. 14 injuring two Israeli soldiers.
Nine slain Palestinians’ bodies are still held in Israeli morgues.
Since the outbreak of Jerusalem Intifada in October 2015 Israel decided not to return the bodies of slain Palestinians shot dead by Israeli forces for alleged involvement in attacks on Israeli soldiers or settlers to their families as part of its collective punishment policy.
