The families of slain Palestinians whose bodies have been withheld by the occupation authorities rallied on Thursday outside the headquarters of the Red Cross in Bethlehem calling for releasing their relatives’ bodies.
Reporting from Bethlehem a PIC news correspondent said dozens of Palestinians took to the street lifting the pictures of their slain relatives and calling for serious steps to urge the Israeli occupation authorities to reveal the fate of the detained bodies.
Amer Dharaghma the brother of slain Mohamed Dharaghma (killed by the Israeli forces some 16 years ago following an anti-occupation attack he had allegedly carried out in Jerusalem city) urged the Red Cross to take up its humanitarian and universal mission and to urgently work on finding out the places where slain Palestinians’ bodies were buried and to allow their families to visit them until they retrieve their sons’ bodies.
At least the bodies of 13 Palestinians from Bethlehem province have been withheld by the occupation authorities among 253 bodies detained since 1967 17 among whom have been withheld since 2015’s anti-occupation uprising.
The latest such violations occurred just a few days ago when the Israeli military seized the body of Yassin al-Saradeeh who breathed his last shortly after his abduction from his family home due to aggressive beating by the occupation soldiers.
Recently the occupation authorities transferred the bodies of four slain Palestinian protesters to the Cemetery of Numbers where Palestinians are buried in tombs whose dates headstones and precise locations remain shrouded in mystery.
