Israel's high court greenlighted the iofs practice of kidnapping palestinians they kill and using their corpses as bargaining chips and we have anthropologists who have studied this and have interviewed the effect of these kidnappings on the families who are tormented that they can't perform the proper burial rites on their dead child and we know that there are mass graves that hold the bodies of hundreds of palestinians and it was kept secret until the 90s but to talk about this is apparently blood libel but again this is a very real very indisputable practice. Some of these corpses are held in tel Avivs medical University's refrigerators. But it's blood libel because of no reason at all. "Some of the militant groups hold the bodies of iof soldiers" Of course palestinians groups are going to respond in a similar way if the zionist regime holds hundreds of palestinian bodies indefinitely and has been doing so for decades. Our dead have become political prisoners in perpetuity
Since 2015, the bodies of these slain Palestinians have been held in refrigerators at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute near Tel Aviv. The total now stands at 135, and the bodies that have been returned to families were subject to strict conditions. According to Aruri, twelve of the bodies remaining are of children under the age of eighteen. In negotiating the return of their dead, families have been forced to provide monetary deposits to Israeli authorities as financial guarantees that they will adhere to posthumous restrictions. These restrictions have included commitments not to conduct an autopsy or admit the returned corpses to hospitals. Aruri says these stipulations are aimed at “preventing investigations on the circumstances of the assassinations.”
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“Historically, prisoner swaps have proven to be the only viable option to release Palestinian political prisoners in large numbers, which is a large part of why Palestinian families put their faith in this option,” Wahbe tells me.
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According to Wahbe, the withholding of Palestinian bodies plays an “important role in allowing the Zionist colonial state to demonstrate its power.” The “denial of dignity to the dead” is a way that Israel “asserts control over the living family.” “Palestinians are already dehumanized in life through a matrix of Israeli colonial domination that controls each aspect of Palestinian existence,” says Wahbe. “At the heart of this structure are Israel’s mass incarceration practices that have subjected over 20 percent of the Palestinian population to arrest by criminalizing any form of resistance to colonial control.” “This postmortem imprisonment of bodies has been understood by Palestinians as being criminalized beyond death,” she adds. Palestinians often refer to these dead bodies held by Israel as “detained martyrs,” or “martyr prisoners,” Wahbe explains, underscoring the extension of Israel’s detention policies “into the realm of death.”
A Jacobin investigation explores Israel’s practice of using the bodies of slain Palestinians as bargaining chips, refusing to return them to
Man this article is full of hypocritical, one sided shit
Oh man sorry I didn't realize that merely stating that Israel holding 135 palestinian corpses in a college building is one sided. And all the other mere facts about their necroviolence against palestinians would create bias against Israel. Whoops
