The PA committee for prisoners’ affairs submitted on Tuesday an appeal to the Israeli prosecution for the return of bodies of 11 slain Palestinians from the West Bank.
Director General of the committee’s legal unit Iyad Messek affirmed that the committee has submitted an appeal for the release of bodies of 11 slain Palestinians from the West Bank.
The committee will submit a second appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court in case the first appeal was refused he pointed out.
Israeli authorities have dramatically escalated their policy of withholding slain Palestinian bodies since the outbreak of Jerusalem Intifada in October 2015 during which more than 230 Palestinians have been killed by Israelis.
Human rights organizations have widely condemned the policy with prisoners’ rights group Addameer calling it a form of “collective punishment” against Palestinians who had not been accused of any wrongdoing also noting that it “adds to the severe grief and trauma of families of the deceased.”
