CROSSFIREARABIA – The Media Office of the National Campaign to Retrieve the Bodies of Martyrs stated, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation authorities are violating international law by holding on to the bodies of Palestinian prisoners. On the occasion of the National Day for the Retreival of the Bodies of Martyrs which lies on, Thursday, 27 August, 2026, the National Campaign, and based on available sources, Israel holds 1700 Palestinian martyrs. It added the national campaign at information on IDs on at least 799 bodies of martyrs Israel continues to hold on to. It further stated that the bodies of 256 martyrs are held in numbered cemeteries, 99 who died in prison but are still kept, 81 children under the age of 18 and 10 female prisoners. It said the numbers are expected to be far higher in the light of the fact there are still thousands that have disappeared with no trace in Gaza.





