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Israel Court Says Palestinian Body Can Be Held For Hostage Deal
By AFP -
Agence France Presse
September 30, 2024
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Israel's Supreme Court on Monday ruled authorities have the right to hold the
body of a Palestinian prisoner to aid hostage negotiations, rejecting an appeal
for return of the corpse.
Walid Daqqa -- a Palestinian of Israeli nationality
-- died from cancer while still in custody in April.
He had spent 38 years in
detention for the kidnapping and murder of an Israeli soldier in 1984.
After
his death, his remains were held by Israeli authorities due to negotiations then
underway for an exchange between Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons,
and hostages as well as the bodies of dead captives held by Hamas militants in
Gaza.
"The military command has the authority to order the holding of the
bodies of terrorists for the purposes of negotiations, including the bodies of
terrorists who are citizens of Israel," the court said in a statement.
Hamas's unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,205
people on the Israel side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on
Israeli official figures that include hostages killed in captivity.
Of the
251 hostages seized by militants, 97 are still held in Gaza, including 33 the
Israeli military says are dead.
There are currently more than 9,600
Palestinian prisoners in Israel, according to civil society organisations
monitoring prisons.
The court's decision drew criticism from Adalah, an
advocacy group for Arab minority rights in Israel, which had filed the appeal.
"The Israeli Supreme Court has sanctioned the government's brutal policy of
withholding the bodies of Palestinians, including citizens of Israel, purely
based on security assessments of their potential value to be exploited as
bargaining chips in negotiations for Jewish Israeli hostages," the group said in
a statement.
Israel has been holding the bodies of dozens of Palestinians for
years, including the remains of members of armed groups killed during clashes
that caused Israeli casualties.
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