NAZARETH, (PIC)
The Israeli Haaretz newspaper revealed that the Israeli occupation army has been holding the bodies of 1,500 Palestinian martyrs in the Sde Teiman detention center in southern 1948 Occupied Palestine.
The newspaper quoted on Tuesday an Israeli soldier who served in the Sde Teiman as saying that the bodies are held in refrigerators and classified by numbers, not by names.
The soldier added, “The bodies were in bad condition, as some of them had signs of decomposition, others had limbs amputated, and some had recognizable faces, while others did not.”
The newspaper estimates that the vast majority of the bodies of the unidentified martyrs are of the elite forces of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas Movement, or of the residents who crossed the border into the settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.
Haaretz quoted the Israeli occupation army as saying, “The Palestinian bodies have been transferred since that day to the Sde Teiman base, and any decision regarding the return of the bodies is up to the government.”
Since the start of the Israeli genocide war on Gaza, the Israeli army has been detaining thousands of Palestinian citizens, including women and children. Only a small number of them was released, while the fate of thousands of detainees remains unknown.
