Israeli forces have abducted more than 2,000 bodies exhumed from various cemeteries across the Gaza strip, with reports from the Gaza government media office saying some corpses have been returned after Israeli forces “desecrated the bodies” of the deceased.
Gaza’s Government Media Office in a statement on Monday said that Israel has stolen 2,000 Palestinian bodies since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza on October 7 and returned some in an inhumane manner.
“Over the course of 304 days of the genocide, the occupation has kidnapped more than 2,000 bodies of martyrs from dozens of cemeteries in the governorates of the Gaza Strip, which the occupation bulldozed with bulldozers and military vehicles and turned their graves over, in a scene that violates humanity and human feelings,” the statement reads.
The statement added that “the Israeli occupation army desecrates the dignity of the bodies of 89 martyrs, handing them over as skeletons and decomposed corpses.”
Meanwhile, director of the Palestinian Civil Emergency Service in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, Yamen Abu Suleiman, said on Monday they had "received 80 bodies inside 15 bags, with more than four martyrs in each bag, each wrapped in a single shroud.”
Abu Suleiman added that Israeli forces did not provide any information about the bodies, including their names or where they were found or taken from, which he said is “a war crime, a crime against humanity.”
“We do not know if they are martyrs (killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip) or detainees who had been tortured and killed in (Israeli) jails”, he said, adding that the bodies will be screened and examined in an attempt to identify them and determine the causes of death.
The article cites the “Gaza government” many times. I feel like I should remind everyone that the government of Gaza is Hamas. The un regards Hamas as a terrorist organisation.
I regard the Netanyahu government as a terrorist organization, so we’re even.
This is not meant to be an attack on Israelis - I just feel like using strong language on this, lol.
Yeah don’t get me wrong. Netanyhu is an absolute twat, but the only official numbers coming out of Gaza come from an organisation that beheads babies for being born to Jewish parents. So you know not exactly impartial.
That is a lie, though - no babies were beheaded.
The Lancet actually published a report which implies that the amount of total dead is going to be far greater due to interruptions in medical service and malnutrition that could kill some children.