Tel Aviv hands over 84 Palestinian bodies to Gaza without identification
I would be justified And till moral Starving 2 million Gazans: Netanyahu minister
▲ The bodies of dozens of Palestinians killed in Israeli bombings are placed in a container to be taken to a mass grave in Khan Yunis.Afp Photo
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Tuesday, August 6, 2024, p. 23
Gaza Strip., Israel yesterday returned the bodies of at least 84 Palestinians killed in its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, while Israeli air strikes continued on the enclave, leaving 18 dead.
Yamen Abu Suleiman, director of the Palestinian civil emergency service in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, said it was not clear whether the bodies were dug up from cemeteries by the Israeli army, or whether they were detainees who had been tortured and killed.
He assured that The occupation did not provide information about names, ages… nothing. This is a crime against humanity..
The bodies will be examined to determine the cause of death and identify them, then buried in a mass grave near Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, officials said.
Hamas denounced the complete state of decomposition of the bodies, which makes their identification impossible, and added that It is a sadistic crime without precedent in the history of humanity..
The Israeli army has not commented on the return of the bodies. Israeli authorities arranged the shipment through the International Committee of the Red Cross. This is the third delivery by Tel Aviv since the war began on October 7.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that it has killed Hamas member Abad al-Zeriei, who served as finance minister in the Gaza Strip, and held him responsible for preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid to civilians in the Palestinian enclave.
Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said yesterday that he could be justifiedand it would be an act moralcausing the death by starvation of 2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip through a blockade, but assured that the international community prevents it, in what the deputy spokesman for the general secretary of the United Nations Organization, Farhan Haq, described as completely inappropriate statements.
Smotrich regretted that his country lives in a situation in which it needs legitimacy by the international community to manage the war, the newspaper reported The Times of Israel.
The United Nations Organization announced yesterday the dismissal of nine officials from its Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) after an internal investigation, which determined that would have been involved in the offensive against Israel on October 7.
The UN watchdog (Office of Internal Oversight Services) said it relied on evidence provided by Tel Aviv in conversations with the authorities and found sufficient evidence to suggest the possible involvement of its staff.
In other news, Turkey plans to join tomorrow the lawsuit against Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan announced yesterday.
Meanwhile, several US military personnel were wounded in an alleged rocket attack on a military base in Iraq, US defence officials said yesterday, amid a surge in attacks on their forces by Iranian-backed militias.
Officials said troops at the Al Asad airbase were still assessing injuries and damage. As of press time, no group had claimed responsibility for the attack.