After waiting for several months the relatives of Palestinian martyr Sari Abu Ghurab from Qabatiya town in Jenin on Friday evening received from the Israeli authorities another body belonging to a girl.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that officials from the Palestinian Authority liaison office in the presence of deputy mayor of Jenin Kamal Abul-Rab and journalists were expecting that the Israeli army would hand over the body of martyr Abu Ghurab at Dotan checkpoint south of Jenin.
However after examining the body in an ambulance they were shocked to find out that it was another one belonging to a female martyr from al-Khalil the sources added.
The Israeli side claimed a mistake happened and that they would redress it during the coming hours.
This incident created a state of confusion and anger among the Palestinians waiting at the checkpoint and infuriated members of the Abu Ghurab family who accused the Israeli authorities of deliberately doing so and manipulating them.
Martyr Abu Ghurab was aboard his car when he was murdered in cold blood last August 2016 at the intersection of Yitzhar near Nablus as he was on his way to visit his fiancée. Soldiers who killed him claimed he attempted to stab them to justify their crime.
The Israeli authorities released on the same day the bodies of six other martyrs from the provinces of al-Khalil Nablus and Tulkarem and handed them over to the Palestinian side.
