Israel security cabinet decided to hand over the bodies of 7 Palestinians accused of carrying out resistance operations against the Israeli forces over the few past months Hebrew media reported on Friday.
The disagreements within the cabinet regarding the issue ended with the decision of withholding the bodies of those affiliated with Hamas Movement Israel radio said.
The radio said in its website that the cabinet decided on Thursday evening to return the bodies of 7 Palestinians (whose families had presented petitions to get the bodies back) out of 10 who carried out resistance attacks in the past few months.
It said that the Israeli government informed the Supreme Court with its decision saying that handing over the bodies will not take place unless the families agree on the conditions put by the Israeli army about the funerals so that they will not turn into “incitement rallies”.
The Israeli cabinet affirmed that the remaining three bodies which belong to “terrorists from Hamas” will not be returned.
Haaretz newspaper reported on Friday that disagreements arose in the meeting held last Wednesday between Avigdor Lieberman Israeli war minster and Major General Nitzan Alon head of central command in the Israeli army about returning the Palestinian bodies.
It was finally decided to return the bodies of the Palestinians of no organizational affiliation and those of any organizational affiliation other than Hamas the paper added.
The number of the Palestinian martyrs withheld in the Israeli morgues reached 26 including 4 females. The Israeli authorities refused to hand them over to their families as a punishment for the resistance operations they allegedly carried out or tried to.
