Some of them are as young as 11 years old

The Israeli occupation keeps the bodies of 102 Palestinians in refrigerators, and 256 others in the cemetery of numbers

  • Omar Kamil sets up a permanent tent to demand the return of his son's body.

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  • Coordinator of the national campaign Hussein Shujaia.

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After the evening prayers on December 21, 2020, the Israeli police forces killed the Palestinian boy Mahmoud Omar Kamil, after they shot him inside Bab Hatta, one of the main doors leading to the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The occupation police were not satisfied with killing the 16-year-old boy Kamil, a resident of the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin in the northern West Bank, but also abused his body and deprived his family of it forever, and moreover, refused to hand his body over to his family, who does not know Until the moment and over the course of two whole years, the place where the body of her son lies in the occupation, which is still keeping Mahmoud's remains in mysterious conditions of detention.

The boy, Mahmoud Kamil, the third son of his father among five children, and one of 11 Palestinian children under the age of 18, the Israeli army announced that they had been killed by its forces, while probably holding them in mortuaries, and this number is part of the 102 bodies held by Israel. Since 2015, including eight bodies belonging to prisoners, along with 256 others who have been kept by the occupation since the sixties of the last century, in what is known as “the graves of numbers.”

The bodies of the children detained by the Israeli occupation are: Muhammad Tarira, 17, from the village of Bani Naim, Hebron, Badawi Masalma, 17, from the city of Hebron, Khaled Abdel-Aal, 17, Muhammad Abu Mandeel, 17, from the Gaza Strip, and Muhammad Tariq Dar Yousef, 17, from Kober village, in the city of Ramallah, Atallah Rayan 17 years old from Bani Hassan village, Zuhdi Al Taweel 17 years old from Kafr Aqab village in Jerusalem city, Youssef Sobh 17 years old, Muhammad Yunus 16 years old from Nablus city, and Mutasim Atallah 17 years old from Harmala village.

cruelty of deprivation

Omar Kamil, the father of the boy, Mahmoud, describes the bitterness of his deprivation of receiving his son’s corpse, giving him a farewell look, and burying his immaculate body – and describes this by saying, “It is harsher than death.

The bereaved father said to "Emirates Today", "My life after the martyrdom of my son was completely different from her father's, and with regard to the detention of his body throughout this period, this is a cruel tragedy that is difficult for the human soul to bear, and from the moment of Mahmoud's martyrdom until this moment, there is no request but to receive His body, until I bury it in the Muslim cemeteries, and feel the comfort of sleep.”

Camille continues, saying, "Since the detention of Mahmoud's body, I do not feel comfortable in all matters of my life, even my work, I do not go to it regularly, and I add to this that I refuse to marry my older sons to Mahmoud, until I embrace his body, and set up a funeral home for him, and after the fire burning inside has been extinguished. My heart, for every incident has a conversation.”

The Israeli intelligence had summoned Mahmoud Kamil’s father the day after he was killed by its forces. The interrogation continued for four hours straight. The occupation officers informed him, “Your son shot us, we killed him, and we will demolish your house. If you want to see his body, submit a request to the International Red Cross.” ».

Since then, Omar Kamil has set up a permanent sit-in tent in the town of Qabatiya, next to his house, asking the Red Cross and the Palestinian National Authority to retrieve the body of his son, who was killed by the occupation forces before he moved to high school.

collective punishment

The coordinator of the national campaign to retrieve the bodies of the martyrs, Hussein Shajaiya, told "Emirates Today" that "the occupation adopts a policy of detaining the bodies of those it kills, as a collective punishment against their families, to deepen the wounds of their deprivation, specifically the young martyrs whose childhood innocence is killed out of the sight of their relatives, while their bodies are being held." away from their parents’ embrace.”

He points out that the occupation deliberately detains the bodies of the Palestinians it kills, to hide the heinous crimes of abuse practiced by the Israeli army against the young and old martyrs, so that their effects do not appear in the reports of forensic autopsy procedures, and are not used as a pressure card for the benefit of the families of the victims to file a criminal file against what they were subjected to. their livers.

constant fears

In addition to the ugliness of the crime of detaining the bodies, the families of the victims fear that the occupation will steal the organs of their sons, especially after the statements of Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh on the fourth of last July, in which he said that “the bodies of Palestinians detained by Israel are used in the laboratories of medical schools in Israeli universities.”

Some live reports and testimonies also confirmed this, including the revelation in 2015 of the confession in 2015 by the former head of the Israeli Medical Forensic Institute “Abu Kabir” for forensic medicine in Israel, Yehuda Hess, to stealing Palestinian organs in different periods between the first and second intifada periods with the approval of the law, and its protection for them .

Regarding this, the coordinator of the national campaign to retrieve the bodies of the Palestinian martyrs says that “in the case of the theft of the detained members’ bodies, we only have what was approved by the head of the Israeli Medical and Forensic Institute, which revealed the theft of corneas, skins, tissues and human organs from the bodies of Palestinians without the knowledge of their families, at a time when it owns Israel has the largest stock of human skin in the world.”

Shajaiya continues, "The holding of the bodies of the martyrs for long periods prevents the proving of this bitter truth, which the families of the martyrs always fear. In 2012, after the recovery of the bodies of 91 martyrs, they were the remains of bones and dirt."

The occupation police did not stop at killing the 16-year-old Kamil, a resident of the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, in the northern West Bank. Until the moment and for two whole years, the place where her son's body lies.

In addition to the ugliness of the crime of detaining the bodies of the victims, their families fear that the Israeli occupation will steal the organs of their children, especially after the statements of Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh on the fourth of last July, in which he said that “the bodies of Palestinians detained by Israel are used in the laboratories of medical schools in Israeli universities.”

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