Funerals held for Palestinians killed in months of violence

Amid accusations that Israel had harvested organs from the bodies of Palestinians killed while suspected of carrying out attacks on Israelis, Tamimi said: “Autopsies showed that the Israeli occupation hasn’t operated on the bodies or stolen any organs”.

“A Palestinian attacker rammed his vehicle into forces securing routes near Huwara and wounded a soldier”, an army statement said, referring to a checkpoint near Nablus in the north of the occupied West Bank.

On Thursday, it turned over a number of bodies to the Palestinian authorities.

In response to incessant incitement by the Palestinian leadership, hundreds of terror attacks – stabbings, vehicular homicide, shootings – have recently been perpetrated by Palestinian women, men, and children as young as 11, resulting in hundreds of Israeli casualties.

Hebron District Attorney Alaa Tamimi told Ma’an that since the bodies were transferred Friday evening, he oversaw examinations of the bodies by forensic doctors, also carried out in the presence of Palestinian Attorney-General, Abd al-Ghani Uweiwi.

Since the start of October, Israeli forces or armed civilians have killed at least 132 Palestinians, 82 of whom authorities described as assailants.

The army said 23 bodies were handed over on Friday.

That means 6.22 million Palestinians and 6.34 million Jews live in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel proper today.

“Israel freezes the bodies of the Palestinian martyrs in mortuaries held at -35 degrees which prevents autopsy for 24 to 48 hours”, Sabir al-Aloul, the head of al-Quds University’s Institute for Forensic Medicine.

Palestinian medical sources in Hebron said 17 bodies to be buried in the area had already been received.

November that Israel is refusing to return the bodies of Palestinians unless their funerals are kept “modest”.

There have been nearly daily Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers over the past three and a half months.