The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) on Saturday evening handed over the body of 24-year-old slain youth Hussein Abu Ghush after withholding it for over 10 days.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said they received the body of Hussein Salem Abu Ghush at the Ofer military checkpoint near Ramallah’s western town of Beitunya.
Abu Ghush’s body was transferred to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah pending his transfer to his family home.
The casualty’s family is expected to bid him last farewell at noontime Sunday in the Qalandiya refugee camp in northern Occupied Jerusalem. His funeral procession is expected to be held on the same day.
Abu Ghush was fatally gunned down by the Israeli occupation soldiers on January 25 2017 near Mekhmas village to the east of Ramallah province after his car accidentally hit an Israeli bus station.
The occupation army claimed Abu Ghush attempted to carry out an anti-occupation car-ramming attack against Israeli soldiers deployed near the bus station. No injuries were however reported among the Israelis.
At least 284 Palestinian youths were murdered by the Israeli occupation army since the start of the anti-occupation Intifada in early April 2015 seven among whom killed since the start of 2017.
Probes launched by human rights NGOs and watchdogs into the killings found out that they have been mostly cases of extrajudicial murder.
The bodies of seven slain Palestinians have meanwhile been held by the occupation authorities preventing their families from bidding them last farewell.
