Gaza Prisoners’ Office: The occupation handed us the bodies of those executed and whose organs were stolen
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The Prisoners’ Information Office stated that a number of martyrs whose bodies were recently handed over to the occupation forces were “executed in cold blood after their arrest, in flagrant violation of all international laws and the Fourth Geneva Convention.”
Follow-ups – Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:
The office added in a statement on Thursday that it had observed, “based on the testimonies of doctors and specialized committees, that many of the bodies recently handed over had their hands and feet bound, and showed signs of brutal torture, blindfolding, burns, and being run over by occupation bulldozers.”
The statement stated that preliminary information indicates “the possibility that human organs were stolen from some of the bodies, in a crime whose heinousness exceeds the limits of humanity.”
The statement indicated that the scenes reveal organized criminal behavior practiced by the occupation forces as part of a systematic policy targeting Palestinian bodies, both living and dead, especially prisoners in Gaza, who have been subjected to the most horrific forms of killing, torture, and enforced disappearance since the beginning of the war of extermination.
The office emphasized that “the occupation’s continued withholding of the bodies of martyrs, including prisoners who were martyred inside prisons or after field arrest, confirms that it is practicing a comprehensive colonialism that extends beyond death, in an attempt to impose its hegemony over the bodies of Palestinians and deprive them of their dignity even after their martyrdom.”
The office called on “international human rights organizations, primarily the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, to form an urgent and independent international investigation into the occupation’s crimes related to the execution of prisoners and detainees, the withholding of bodies, and the theft of organs, and to prosecute the occupation’s leaders before international courts as those directly responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
