The Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation is set on Sunday to discuss a bill banning the return of the bodies of Palestinian martyrs to their families.
According to the website of the Hebrew TV channel 7 the bill was initiated by MKs from the extremist parties Jewish Home and Yisrael Beiteinu.
The bill provides for withholding the bodies of Palestinian martyrs as long as the Palestinian factions are detaining Israelis or bodies of Israelis.
It also stresses the necessity to make sure that Palestinian martyrs’ funerals are not turned into acts of “violence and incitement”.
The same bill allows the Israeli Prime Minister to order the return of the body of any Palestinian martyr to his family for special reasons.
