The Israeli authorities confessed on Monday that they had lost the bodies of Palestinian martyrs who carried out resistance operations against the Israeli occupation and were buried in the cemeteries of numbers.
The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz said that the Israeli authorities entrusted Israeli companies to bury the bodies of Palestinian martyrs in the nineties. However the only thing that was found is their burial places adding that the documents related to the issue were torn.
These confessions were voiced in the Public Prosecution’s response to the petition filed by families of Palestinian martyrs to the High Court to receive the bodies of their sons according to the newspaper.
Haaretz affirmed that out of 123 bodies the state found only two adding that the Israeli army said that it has no information about the number of the withheld bodies of the Palestinian martyrs who were killed in 1990s.
The Hebrew newspaper pointed out that the Israeli court said that investigations must be conducted to find out which company was assigned to the burial. Most often the task was assigned to private companies such as “IES”. This company was closed and all documents related to the case were torn.
The only bodies that were found belong to Diaa al-Dumiati and Dergham Zakarneh who were killed in 2002.
