A number of Palestinian families rallied on Tuesday in the West Bank to demand the Red Cross to pressure the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) to release the bodies of their slain relatives which are detained in Israeli morgues or buried in unknown graves.
Dozens of martyrs’ families and activists participated in sit-ins staged outside the Red Cross headquarters in Ramallah al-Khalil Nablus and Jenin. The participants carried pictures of the martyrs still detained by the IOA.
During the sit-ins spokespersons for the families handed Red Cross officials letters to urge the international organization to assume its responsibilities in this regard and work on pressuring the IOA to release the withheld bodies of martyrs.
The IOA has been hiding the remains of hundreds of Palestinians since 1967 withholding them in morgues or having them in nameless graves known as the cemeteries of numbers.
