The Road to Bethlehem
CrossFireArabia- August 28, 2026
From Pal Arts:
Painter: George Sleibi – The Road to Bethlehem
233 Bodies Recovered From Under The Gaza Wreckage, 174 Still Missing
- CrossFireArabia
- August 27, 2026
CROSSFIREARABIA – Civil Defense officers recovered the bodies and remains of 233 martyrs in the Gaza Governorate, Thursday. Their bodies were recovered from under the debris of 20 houses destroyed by the Israeli occupation forces; they destroyed the homes on the heads of its residents. It is thought 174 bodies remain under the wreckage from a total of 407 people who previously lived there. Of the bodies recovered include 73 children and 106 women. This is day 51 of the second stage to recover the bodies of martyrs with civil defense officers working in difficult conditions and primitive tools. They are currently focusing on buildings thought to have the biggest number of bodies who went missing according to the Palestine Information Center.
‘No Rest Even in Death:’ Israel Holds on The Bodies of 1700 Palestinians
- CrossFireArabia
- August 27, 2026
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.
Israeli Army Forced to Release The Body of a 15-Year-Old it Kept For 9 Months
- CrossFireArabia
- August 27, 2026
A Palestinian NGO stated, Wednesday, the Israeli army has decided to release the body of a Palestinian child it held since killing him more than nine months ago. The National Campaign to Retrieve the Bodies of Martyrs stated “the Israeli occupation authorities decided to release the body of martyr 15-year-old Jadallah Jihad Jumaa Jadallah, from the al-Far’a refugee camp in Tubas in the northern West Bank.” It pointed out in a press release that the decision to release the body of the 15-year-old came “after it had been held since his death on 16 November, 2025, when he was shot by the occupation army in a camp raid.” The Palestinian national campaign explained the release followed a legal petition to the Israeli Supreme Court. It added the petition was submitted last March. “The court granted the Israeli prosecution repeated extensions to submit its response, and on the final deadline, Wednesday, the prosecution finally informed the court of its intention to release the martyr’s body in the coming days. Israel continues the bodies 1,700 martyrs including 799 whose identities are known.”as reported in Anadolu.
