Adalah Legal Center which works in the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948 filed on Friday a request with the Israeli High Court to release the body of martyr Yaqoub Abu al-Qiaan 47 from Umm al-Hiran village in the Negev.
The petition asked for the delivery of the body of the martyr who was killed on Wednesday by the Israeli police to be buried “unconditionally”.
The Center said that withholding Abu al-Qiaan’s body offends the dignity of the dead and doing this the Israeli police blatantly abuse their powers.
The Israeli police required the martyr’s body to be buried in the night and with the participation of a small number of mourners as a condition to release the body.
The Israeli police killed Abu al-Qiaan during the confrontations that took place in Umm al-Hiran village last Wednesday following the demolition of 18 Palestinian houses in the village.
According to the Israeli narrative Abu al-Qiaan carried out a car-ramming attack killing an Israeli policeman and injuring another before he was fatally shot. Eyewitnesses said that the martyr was shot and severely injured before the car-ramming and the Israeli police denied him treatment and left him to bleed to death.
In the same context the Beersheba District Court extended on Friday the detention of two Palestinian youths who were arrested during the demolitions carried out in Umm al-Hiran village.
The radio said that the District Court overturned the Magistrate Court’s decision to release the two young men who were accused of attacking Israeli policemen in the village.
It pointed out that the detention of the two Palestinians was extended for four days pending further investigations.
