Artist Nabeel Anani
Artist Nabeel Anani
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.
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.