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Ten bodies found in mass graves in the Gaza Strip their hands were tiedwhile regarding 20 still they had medical tubes attachedIndicating that they might have been buried alivehe stated this Thursday Mohammed Mughiermember of the Palestinian Civil Defense.
“We need the forensic examination of regarding 20 corpses of people we believe were buried alive“Mughier declared, quoted by Al Jazeera.
The UN asked to independently investigate the discovery of mass graves in Gaza, where 300 bodies were exhumed
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In addition to this, he specified that some of the remains found in mass graves at the Nasser hospital are those of children, to which he showed photographic and video evidence of some of the bodies. “Why do we have children in mass graves?“he lamented, adding that evidence shows that Israeli soldiers committed “crimes once morest humanity.”
While, Yamen Abu Sulaimanhead of the Civil Defense Department of Khan Yunis, explained that, of the 392 bodies recovered in mass graves, only 65 have been identified by their relatives. In this regard, the official explained that the majority remain unidentified due to their advanced state of decomposition or mutilation, at the same time that he pointed out evidence that some victims may have been tortured.
Likewise, he specified that Three mass graves were found in the medical center: one behind the morgue, one in front of it and one near the dialysis building. As she described it, the bodies were “stacked up” in collective burials and showed signs of executions having taken place on the ground.
Following the discovery, the official urged the international community to exert pressure to “immediately end this aggression” once morest the Palestiniansas well as allowing humanitarian organizations and international media to enter Gaza to “examine these crimes.”
The testimonies of the relatives of the deceased
Israeli troops attacked the establishment for several days, claiming that Hamas used it for military purposes. Following the recent withdrawal of Israeli soldiers, Palestinian authorities claimed they discovered mass graves at the site.
“My mother’s heart told me it was Nabil”Reem Zidan revealed on Wednesday to AFP following recovering the body of his 22-year-old son, exhumed by a bulldozer near the Nasser hospital.
“They told me to stay away, but I told them: ‘My son is on the bulldozer,'” Zidan, 42, explained. “I had lost sight of him three months ago and today, I found him once more”said the woman, who assured that her son was killed by an Israeli air attack, without specifying when.
On Tuesday, the Gaza civil defense indicated that it had exhumed in recent days around 340 bodies in that area who, according to this body, were murdered and buried by the Israelis. While, the army denies having buried Palestiniansand several people indicated to the AFP that some of the bodies were buried by relatives or friends.
Unlike Zidan, many have still not found the bodies of their relatives. That is the case of Sonia Abou Rajilah, a 52-year-old woman from Khan Yunis, who came in search of her son Hazem, 29 years old and buried by her friends at the Nasser hospital. “I wait with the corpses that are exhumed, hoping to recognize her body,” this Gazan explained to the AFPwho tries to locate the beige shirt and gray pants he was wearing the last time he saw him.
Nawal al Zaqzouq, 60, goes to the hospital every day to find the remains of her son, Alaa al Attal. His brother buried him there following succumbing to hemorrhage caused by an Israeli sniper’s shot, his mother said. “We told ourselves that when things calmed down” around the hospital, “we would look for him and recover him to bury him in the cemetery. But we still haven’t found his body“, he said.
In parallel, Calls for an international investigation into these mass graves multiply. “Without a real investigation to determine how these people died or what violations may have been committed, we will never know the truth of the horrors behind these mass graves,” Erika Guevara, a person in charge of International Amnesty.
For its part, the White House demanded on Wednesday “answers” to Israeli authorities following the discovery of these graves in the Nasser and Al Shifa hospitals, in Gaza City.
Israel’s version
The Israeli government on Wednesday called the accusations “false and baseless.” according to which his army had buried bodies of Palestinians in the Khan Younis hospital. However, he did not respond to allegations by the Hamas-led Gaza government that the Israeli army killed those buried there.
Commander Nadav Shoshania spokesman for the Israeli army, denounced on X (formerly Twitter) “the misinformation circulating regarding the mass grave discovered in the Nasser hospital”. “The grave in question was dug by Gazans a few months ago,” he said.
While, The Israeli army acknowledged having unearthed bodies in the hospital complex to try to find the bodies of the hostages taken by Hamas in its unprecedented attack on October 7. “Once examined,” his troops “returned the bodies to their place,” he declared.
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