BAQA AL-GHARBIYA, (PIC)
The family of the martyr Walid Daqqa on Sunday called on the Supreme Follow-up Committee, national parties, and local and international human rights institutions to intensify their efforts to end the injustice befalling them as a result of Israel’s detention of the body of martyr Daqqa.
This comes after the Israeli court responded to the lawyers’ request to release his body, saying that the competent authorities need more time, until May 5, 2024, to obtain the approval of the minister of Israeli army on the issue since under the current “state of emergency,” no other authority can take that decision.
In a statement, the family condemned in the strongest terms this response, rejecting the ongoing inhumane punitive measure against the martyr.
For its part, Adalah Human Rights Center described the court’s request to postpone the delivery of Daqqa’s body as “unjust, lacking any legal basis, and amounting to abuse.”
The Adalah Center said in a statement that it had received the Israeli authorities’ initial response to the Supreme Court regarding the petition submitted by the Center on behalf of the family of the captive martyr Walid Daqqa for the release of his body.
Adalah Center had submitted a petition a few days ago to the Supreme Court, demanding the Israeli authorities to hand over Daqqa’s body to his family for burial procedures.
The petition stated that the Israeli Prison Service and the police are illegally and unconstitutionally delaying the delivery of the martyr’s body indefinitely, thus violating the right to dignity of both the deceased and his family without any authority and contrary to the rule of the law.
Martyr Walid Daqqa, 62, had been detained in Israeli prisons since 1986, and died on April 7 in Assaf Harofeh Hospital, to which he was transferred after deterioration of his health condition, as he had been suffering from myeloid cancer since late 2022. The prison administration had prevented his family from visiting him following October 7, 2023.
