ISRAELI REGIME WITHOLDS 776 DOCUMENTED BODIES OF PALESTINIANS - REPORT

RAMALLAH, Jan 28 (Bernama-WAFA) -- Palestine’s National Campaign for the Recovery of Martyrs' Bodies and Disclosing the Fate of the Missing confirmed that the Israeli regime still withholding the bodies of 776 individuals documented as hostages in cemeteries and morgues.

Palestinian news agency (WAFA) reported, citing the Campaign said this figure includes 96 individuals under captives, 77 children under the age of 18, and 10 females.

In a statement released Tuesday, the Campaign highlighted that while the occupation authorities recently announced the recovery of the final body of an Israeli prisoner - effectively confirming that no Israeli captives, living or dead, remain in the Gaza Strip, hundreds of deceased Palestinians from Gaza continue to be detained.

These individuals were taken during the ongoing genocide, with their exact numbers and the conditions of their detention remaining unknown, the Campaign said.

It asserted that these actions constitute a grave and systematic violation of international humanitarian law, specifically the Geneva Conventions, which protect the dignity of living prisoners and the sanctity of the deceased.

It further condemned the occupation army for exhuming and desecrated more than 250 bodies from cemeteries across the Gaza Strip during its recent military operations, describing the act as a flagrant violation of the rights of the deceased and their families.

It also demanded the immediate and unconditional release of all Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and the handover of all withheld bodies to their families.

-- BERNAMA-WAFA