KHAN YUNIS, (PIC)
The Palestinian Civil Defense Service in Gaza announced on Thursday the recovery of 58 new bodies from 3 mass graves discovered in Nasser Medical Complex in the city of Khan Yunis, bringing the total number to 392 martyrs after Israeli occupation forces departed the Complex on April 7.
The Director of Civil Defense in Khan Yunis, Yamen Abu Suleiman, said during a press conference held in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, “Three mass graves were discovered in the Nasser Medical Complex, containing 392 bodies, some of which showed signs of torture, other indications point to possible field executions and that some of them were buried alive.”
“During search operations, we discovered bodies of children. We do not know why children bodies were found in mass graves at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis,” he added.
Suleiman revealed that “the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) buried a number of bodies in the Nasser Medical complex in plastic bags at a depth of 3 meters, which accelerated their decomposition.”
“Among the bodies were 165 bodies of martyrs who could not be identified because of IOF changing the appearance of the special identification signs and mutilating the bodies,” he underlined.
Suleiman called on the international community to “halt the Israeli aggression against our people and allow the entry of human rights and international media teams to expose the Israeli crimes against the people of the Gaza Strip.”
For his part, the Director of the Civil Defense Supply and Equipment Department in the Gaza Strip, Muhammad Al-Mughair, presented during the conference a video clip showing the bodies of people killed by the IOF, with visible signs of torture as being shackled with plastic restraints.
“The bodies found in the Nasser complex show suspicions of torture and field executions,” he said.
He added: “The bodies were buried at a depth of 3 meters, contrary to the usual body burial methods pursued by the people of the Gaza Strip.”
On April 7, the IOF withdrew from Khan Yunis, 4 months after launching a ground operation there that included storming the Nasser Medical Complex.
On Wednesday, the European Union called for a comprehensive and independent investigation into the mass graves discovered following the withdrawal of the IOF from areas in the Gaza Strip.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza, leaving tens of thousands as martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, in addition to massive destruction, and unprecedented famine that has claimed the lives of children and the elderly, according to Palestinian and UN data.
