16 feb 2017
Detainees and Ex-detainees Committee revealed that Israeli Occupation Authority (IOA) will return the body of martyr Mohammad al-Jallad, 24, to his family at Ennab military barrier east of Tulkarem city at 3 p.m. on Friday.
In a statement on Thursday, the Committee pointed out that the martyr’s body will be transferred to hospital for the issuance of an official medical report.
Martyr Jallad died in the Israeli Beilinson Hospital on Thursday evening, Israeli authorities however announced his death on Friday, of serious wounds sustained during his arrest three months ago after an alleged stabbing attempt.
The martyrdom of Jallad has brought the number of Palestinian martyrs in Israeli jails to 210, according to sources concerned with prisoners’ affairs.
In a statement on Thursday, the Committee pointed out that the martyr’s body will be transferred to hospital for the issuance of an official medical report.
Martyr Jallad died in the Israeli Beilinson Hospital on Thursday evening, Israeli authorities however announced his death on Friday, of serious wounds sustained during his arrest three months ago after an alleged stabbing attempt.
The martyrdom of Jallad has brought the number of Palestinian martyrs in Israeli jails to 210, according to sources concerned with prisoners’ affairs.
5 feb 2017
The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) on Saturday evening handed over the body of 24-year-old slain youth Hussein Abu Ghush, after withholding it for over 10 days.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said they received the body of Hussein Salem Abu Ghush at the Ofer military checkpoint, near Ramallah’s western town of Beitunya.
Abu Ghush’s body was transferred to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah pending his transfer to his family home.
The casualty’s family is expected to bid him last farewell at noontime Sunday in the Qalandiya refugee camp, in northern Occupied Jerusalem. His funeral procession is expected to be held on the same day.
Abu Ghush was fatally gunned down by the Israeli occupation soldiers on January 25, 2017 near Mekhmas village, to the east of Ramallah province, after his car accidentally hit an Israeli bus station.
The occupation army claimed Abu Ghush attempted to carry out an anti-occupation car-ramming attack against Israeli soldiers deployed near the bus station. No injuries were, however, reported among the Israelis.
At least 284 Palestinian youths were murdered by the Israeli occupation army since the start of the anti-occupation Intifada in early April 2015, seven among whom killed since the start of 2017.
Probes launched by human rights NGOs and watchdogs into the killings found out that they have been mostly cases of extrajudicial murder.
The bodies of seven slain Palestinians have, meanwhile, been held by the occupation authorities, preventing their families from bidding them last farewell.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said they received the body of Hussein Salem Abu Ghush at the Ofer military checkpoint, near Ramallah’s western town of Beitunya.
Abu Ghush’s body was transferred to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah pending his transfer to his family home.
The casualty’s family is expected to bid him last farewell at noontime Sunday in the Qalandiya refugee camp, in northern Occupied Jerusalem. His funeral procession is expected to be held on the same day.
Abu Ghush was fatally gunned down by the Israeli occupation soldiers on January 25, 2017 near Mekhmas village, to the east of Ramallah province, after his car accidentally hit an Israeli bus station.
The occupation army claimed Abu Ghush attempted to carry out an anti-occupation car-ramming attack against Israeli soldiers deployed near the bus station. No injuries were, however, reported among the Israelis.
At least 284 Palestinian youths were murdered by the Israeli occupation army since the start of the anti-occupation Intifada in early April 2015, seven among whom killed since the start of 2017.
Probes launched by human rights NGOs and watchdogs into the killings found out that they have been mostly cases of extrajudicial murder.
The bodies of seven slain Palestinians have, meanwhile, been held by the occupation authorities, preventing their families from bidding them last farewell.
3 feb 2017
Israeli authorities decided on Thursday evening to return the body of slain Palestinian Hussein Salem Abu Ghush to his family in the Qalandiya refugee camp in the central occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday.
Abu Ghush was killed by Israeli authorities on Jan. 25 for allegedly attempting a car-ramming attack at a bus-stop near Kochav Yaakov, an illegal Israeli settlement directly southeast of Ramallah.
At the time of Abu Ghush’s death, an Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that "in response to the immediate threat, Israeli forces fired at the assailant, resulting in his death," further claiming that Israeli soldiers found a knife in the Palestinian's vehicle.
She added that no Israelis were injured in the incident.
Witnesses told Ma'an at the time that Israeli soldiers left Abu Ghush bleeding on the ground until he died, before putting him in a black body bag and putting him into a military vehicle headed towards Jerusalem.
At the time of his death, Abu Ghush was the seventh out of now eight Palestinians to have been killed by Israeli forces in 2017.
Five Israelis, either soldiers or police officers, have been killed by Palestinians during the same time period, all in alleged vehicular attacks.
Amid an increase in violence since October 2015, Israeli authorities dramatically escalated a policy of withholding Palestinian bodies killed by Israeli forces, claiming that funerals of Palestinians had provided grounds for “incitement” against the Israeli state.
However, the majority of bodies of Palestinians slain by Israeli forces have since been returned to their families, despite the Israeli security cabinet deciding in January that bodies of Palestinians affiliated with the Hamas movement who were killed while carrying out attacks against Israelis would be withheld indefinitely.
A joint statement released by Addameer and Israeli minority rights group Adalah in March condemned Israel’s practice of withholding bodies as "a severe violation of international humanitarian law as well as international human rights law, including violations of the right to dignity, freedom of religion, and the right to practice culture."
PLO official Saeb Erekat has also urged the international community to pressure Israel to release Palestinian bodies held by Israeli, saying: "Israel's collective punishments are now being carried out against the living and the dead."
Abu Ghush was killed by Israeli authorities on Jan. 25 for allegedly attempting a car-ramming attack at a bus-stop near Kochav Yaakov, an illegal Israeli settlement directly southeast of Ramallah.
At the time of Abu Ghush’s death, an Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that "in response to the immediate threat, Israeli forces fired at the assailant, resulting in his death," further claiming that Israeli soldiers found a knife in the Palestinian's vehicle.
She added that no Israelis were injured in the incident.
Witnesses told Ma'an at the time that Israeli soldiers left Abu Ghush bleeding on the ground until he died, before putting him in a black body bag and putting him into a military vehicle headed towards Jerusalem.
At the time of his death, Abu Ghush was the seventh out of now eight Palestinians to have been killed by Israeli forces in 2017.
Five Israelis, either soldiers or police officers, have been killed by Palestinians during the same time period, all in alleged vehicular attacks.
Amid an increase in violence since October 2015, Israeli authorities dramatically escalated a policy of withholding Palestinian bodies killed by Israeli forces, claiming that funerals of Palestinians had provided grounds for “incitement” against the Israeli state.
However, the majority of bodies of Palestinians slain by Israeli forces have since been returned to their families, despite the Israeli security cabinet deciding in January that bodies of Palestinians affiliated with the Hamas movement who were killed while carrying out attacks against Israelis would be withheld indefinitely.
A joint statement released by Addameer and Israeli minority rights group Adalah in March condemned Israel’s practice of withholding bodies as "a severe violation of international humanitarian law as well as international human rights law, including violations of the right to dignity, freedom of religion, and the right to practice culture."
PLO official Saeb Erekat has also urged the international community to pressure Israel to release Palestinian bodies held by Israeli, saying: "Israel's collective punishments are now being carried out against the living and the dead."
2 feb 2017
Palestinians in Bir Nabala town in Occupied Jerusalem on Thursday bade farewell to the minor martyr Mohammad Zidan, 16, who was killed by Israeli forces last October.
Martyr Zidan was killed at the hands of Israeli soldiers who shot him at an Israeli military checkpoint while he was going to hospital for kidney failure treatment.
Israeli authorities detained the martyr’s body for three months before releasing it on Wednesday evening.
16-year-old slain Palestinian laid to rest after being held by Israel for over 2 months
Palestinians in the village of Bir Nabala northwest of Jerusalem in the central occupied West Bank set off on Thursday for the funeral procession of 16 year-old slain Palestinian Muhammad Zeidan, whose body had been returned to his family late Wednesday night after being held by Israeli authorities for over two months.
Zeidan, 16, was shot and killed by an Israeli security guard on Nov. 25 after allegedly attempting to carry out a stabbing attack near the Shufat checkpoint in the Jerusalem district of the occupied West Bank.
The funeral march set off from the Ramallah governmental hospital and headed to Bir Nabala, where locals performed funeral prayers and carried Zeidan’s body on their shoulders to his final destination in the village’s cemetery, where he was laid to rest.
Zeidan’s father, Nabeel Zeidan, claimed that the teenager was on his way to the hospital to receive medical care for his kidney failure when he was shot and killed.
Nabeel added that “executing” his son at such a young age and holding his dead body “indicated Israeli army’s criminal mentality.”
Zeidan was one of 112 Palestinians to have been killed in 2016 as part of Israeli-Palestinian violence. Fifteen Israelis died during the same time period.
Rights groups have repeatedly denounced what they have termed Israeli forces' "shoot-to-kill" policy against Palestinians who did not constitute a threat at the time of their death or who could have been subdued in a non-lethal manner.
Amid the increase in violence since October 2015, Israeli authorities dramatically escalated a policy of withholding Palestinian bodies killed by Israeli forces, claiming that funerals of Palestinians had provided grounds for “incitement” against the Israeli state.
However, the majority of bodies of Palestinians slain by Israeli forces have since been returned to their families, despite the Israeli security cabinet deciding in January that bodies of Palestinians affiliated with the Hamas movement who were killed while carrying out attacks against Israelis would be withheld indefinitely.
A joint statement released by Addameer and Israeli minority rights group Adalah in March condemned Israel’s practice of withholding bodies as "a severe violation of international humanitarian law as well as international human rights law, including violations of the right to dignity, freedom of religion, and the right to practice culture."
PLO official Saeb Erekat has also urged the international community to pressure Israel to release Palestinian bodies held by Israeli, saying: "Israel's collective punishments are now being carried out against the living and the dead."
Martyr Zidan was killed at the hands of Israeli soldiers who shot him at an Israeli military checkpoint while he was going to hospital for kidney failure treatment.
Israeli authorities detained the martyr’s body for three months before releasing it on Wednesday evening.
16-year-old slain Palestinian laid to rest after being held by Israel for over 2 months
Palestinians in the village of Bir Nabala northwest of Jerusalem in the central occupied West Bank set off on Thursday for the funeral procession of 16 year-old slain Palestinian Muhammad Zeidan, whose body had been returned to his family late Wednesday night after being held by Israeli authorities for over two months.
Zeidan, 16, was shot and killed by an Israeli security guard on Nov. 25 after allegedly attempting to carry out a stabbing attack near the Shufat checkpoint in the Jerusalem district of the occupied West Bank.
The funeral march set off from the Ramallah governmental hospital and headed to Bir Nabala, where locals performed funeral prayers and carried Zeidan’s body on their shoulders to his final destination in the village’s cemetery, where he was laid to rest.
Zeidan’s father, Nabeel Zeidan, claimed that the teenager was on his way to the hospital to receive medical care for his kidney failure when he was shot and killed.
Nabeel added that “executing” his son at such a young age and holding his dead body “indicated Israeli army’s criminal mentality.”
Zeidan was one of 112 Palestinians to have been killed in 2016 as part of Israeli-Palestinian violence. Fifteen Israelis died during the same time period.
Rights groups have repeatedly denounced what they have termed Israeli forces' "shoot-to-kill" policy against Palestinians who did not constitute a threat at the time of their death or who could have been subdued in a non-lethal manner.
Amid the increase in violence since October 2015, Israeli authorities dramatically escalated a policy of withholding Palestinian bodies killed by Israeli forces, claiming that funerals of Palestinians had provided grounds for “incitement” against the Israeli state.
However, the majority of bodies of Palestinians slain by Israeli forces have since been returned to their families, despite the Israeli security cabinet deciding in January that bodies of Palestinians affiliated with the Hamas movement who were killed while carrying out attacks against Israelis would be withheld indefinitely.
A joint statement released by Addameer and Israeli minority rights group Adalah in March condemned Israel’s practice of withholding bodies as "a severe violation of international humanitarian law as well as international human rights law, including violations of the right to dignity, freedom of religion, and the right to practice culture."
PLO official Saeb Erekat has also urged the international community to pressure Israel to release Palestinian bodies held by Israeli, saying: "Israel's collective punishments are now being carried out against the living and the dead."
After being held over two months in Abu Kabir forensic institute in Tel Aviv, the Israeli police handed over the body of 16-year-old Mohamed Sallam to the Palestinian side.
Local sources reported that Israeli soldiers at a military checkpoint known as al-Jeep to the northwest of Occupied Jerusalem handed over the body of martyr Sallam to his family.
They added that the martyr’s body was transferred to Palestine hospital in Ramallah before taking it to Bir Nabala town, north of Jerusalem, where the funeral would take place on Thursday.
Israeli soldiers arbitrarily killed Sallam at Shuafat checkpoint on November 25, 2016 and later claimed he tried to stab one of them to justify their crime.
Local sources reported that Israeli soldiers at a military checkpoint known as al-Jeep to the northwest of Occupied Jerusalem handed over the body of martyr Sallam to his family.
They added that the martyr’s body was transferred to Palestine hospital in Ramallah before taking it to Bir Nabala town, north of Jerusalem, where the funeral would take place on Thursday.
Israeli soldiers arbitrarily killed Sallam at Shuafat checkpoint on November 25, 2016 and later claimed he tried to stab one of them to justify their crime.
28 jan 2017
The Israeli military transferred, on Friday evening, the body of Majd al-Khdour, who was killed by Israeli army fire seven months ago, to her family for burial. Israel claimed she was killed after carrying out a “ramming attack with her car.”
Al-Khdour’s body was transferred to the Israeli District Coordination Office (DCO), before it was handed to the Palestinian DCO, and was transferred by a Red Crescent ambulance to the al-Ahli hospital, in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian forensic pathologists will be examining the body, Saturday, before handing al-Khdour to her family for a proper burial ceremony, in the afternoon hours.
It is worth mentioning that Majd, from Bani Neim town near Hebron, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers on Friday, June 24 2016, after the army claimed she tried to ram colonialist settlers with her car, but instead struck another vehicle, injuring a man and his wife, before the soldiers shot her.
Majd, a mother of a toddler girl named Hade was killed on a bypass road, in the Baq’a area, at the entrance Keryat Arba’ Israeli colony in Hebron.
The soldiers fired many rounds of live ammunition at the car, especially into the windshield, killing her, after wounding her multiple times in the upper parts of her body.
After the shooting, Palestinian medics rushed to the scene, but the soldiers prevented them from approaching al-Khdour, and closed the entire area after declaring it a closed military zone.
Al-Khdour’s body was transferred to the Israeli District Coordination Office (DCO), before it was handed to the Palestinian DCO, and was transferred by a Red Crescent ambulance to the al-Ahli hospital, in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian forensic pathologists will be examining the body, Saturday, before handing al-Khdour to her family for a proper burial ceremony, in the afternoon hours.
It is worth mentioning that Majd, from Bani Neim town near Hebron, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers on Friday, June 24 2016, after the army claimed she tried to ram colonialist settlers with her car, but instead struck another vehicle, injuring a man and his wife, before the soldiers shot her.
Majd, a mother of a toddler girl named Hade was killed on a bypass road, in the Baq’a area, at the entrance Keryat Arba’ Israeli colony in Hebron.
The soldiers fired many rounds of live ammunition at the car, especially into the windshield, killing her, after wounding her multiple times in the upper parts of her body.
After the shooting, Palestinian medics rushed to the scene, but the soldiers prevented them from approaching al-Khdour, and closed the entire area after declaring it a closed military zone.
26 jan 2017
The Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) decided Thursday evening to return the body of the martyr Nidal Daoud Mihdawi, 34, to his family in Tulkarem in the northern West Bank after it was held in Israeli morgues for 10 days.
Nasr Mufleh, head of the Palestinian Civil Affairs office in Tulkarem, affirmed that the IOA informed the Palestinian liaison office that the body of Mihdawi would be returned on Friday afternoon at the Jubara checkpoint.
Mufleh added that the Palestinian liaison officials would be receiving Mihdawi's body and transferring it to the Thabet Governmental Hospital in Tulkarem before taking it to his family home in the Shweikeh neighborhood in the city.
Mihdawi was shot and killed on January 17 after he allegedly attempted to carry out a stabbing attack at Gate 104 checkpoint near Tulkarem.
Nasr Mufleh, head of the Palestinian Civil Affairs office in Tulkarem, affirmed that the IOA informed the Palestinian liaison office that the body of Mihdawi would be returned on Friday afternoon at the Jubara checkpoint.
Mufleh added that the Palestinian liaison officials would be receiving Mihdawi's body and transferring it to the Thabet Governmental Hospital in Tulkarem before taking it to his family home in the Shweikeh neighborhood in the city.
Mihdawi was shot and killed on January 17 after he allegedly attempted to carry out a stabbing attack at Gate 104 checkpoint near Tulkarem.
