Israel returns the wrong body to kill Palestinian teenage family | War-Israel-Palestine News

The mix draws interest in Israel’s policy of banning Palestinian bodies from alleged violence.

Israeli forces have returned the remains of a Palestinian teenager killed in October in the West Bank, who was abducted, and told by his family that it was someone else’s body.

The macabre frenzy, which the military has called “a terrible mistake,” should draw attention to Israel’s policy of keeping the remains of Palestinians killed during alleged violence, which human rights organizations say is a punishment for bereaved families. .

Israel is planning to retaliate against the bodies of two Palestinian people – Isra Khazimia and Amjad Abu Sultan – for “humanitarian reasons”. At the time of the alleged terrorists, Khazimia is said to have had a mental illness when Abu Sultan was a child.

But when he handed over the remains of Abu Sultan, his family told the soldiers it was a wrong body. The remains were not immediately known.

“When the body returned, it was discovered that the body had been misidentified. The tragedy is being addressed by the appropriate authorities, “the Israeli military said in a statement.

The Palestinian Civil Affairs Committee, which oversees the day-to-day affairs of Israel, said it was Abu Sultan’s family who found out the body was not their son’s. The couple was not immediately available for comment.

Abu Sultan, 14, was killed on October 14 in the West Bank town of Beit Jala, near Bethlehem.

Witnesses say Israeli forces fired Abu Sultan, who set fire to Molotov’s shop, without any warning or warning.

“Israeli forces regularly kill Palestinian children without punishment, using excessive force and intentional killing,” said Ayed Abu Eqtaish, director of Defense for Children International-Palestine, after Abu Sultan’s death.

Israeli police shot and killed Khazimia, a mother of four, in September, while trying to kill a police officer in the ancient city of Jerusalem. His remains were returned to Salem near the town of Jenin in the north West Bank.

Local sources say Israeli forces barred Palestinians from gathering near the check and allowed Khazimia’s father to attend to receive his body, including in an driver-driven ambulance.

Israel has said its plan to preserve the remains of Palestinian insurgents is necessary to end future violence and to exchange the remains of two Israeli forces with the Palestinian militant group Hamas on the Gaza Strip.

According to the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC), Israel is holding the remains of about 80 Palestinians., in addition to the 254 bodies buried in most graves in the “numerical tomb” – a secret tomb where their graves are inscribed with a number of letters.

JLAC and the Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights say Israel is the only country in the world to do so necroviolence, the process of confiscation of human bodies, where it relies on the laws of 1945 (during the British Mandate) as the basis for its policy.

International law considers the practice to be a violation of human rights. According to Geneva District Conventions, military personnel should pay homage to the deceased with respect, “if at all possible according to the religious tradition they have and that their graves are revered, properly cared for, and marked in such a sign. a way to always be known. “