Dozens of Palestinians on Sunday staged a protest at the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Nablus to demand the return of martyrs’ bodies withheld by the Israeli occupation authorities.
Local sources reported that Palestinian flags were raised and slogans calling for releasing the bodies were chanted in the protest organized by the national committee for the support of prisoners and the national campaign to restore martyrs’ bodies.
Several speakers during the protest called on human rights organizations to pressure Israel to abide by the international agreements and stop its violations against the Palestinian people.
Fatah Movement secretary in Nablus Jihad Ramadan said that a serious position must be adopted to force Israel to stop its ongoing violations stressing that the detention of martyrs’ bodies is a “systematic crime”.
The father of martyr Rami al-Awartani told Quds Press that Israel “killed his son in cold blood” adding that the family are in great shock knowing that their son is now buried in Israel’s cemeteries of numbers.
Israeli Supreme Court has recently postponed issuing a decision on a request to hand over the bodies of nine Palestinian martyrs held in Israeli mortuaries while the Israeli prosecution announced transferring the bodies of four martyrs including Awartani’s from mortuaries to the cemeteries of numbers.
