RAMALLAH (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The National Campaign to Retrieve Martyrs’ Bodies said on Thursday that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) continues to withhold the bodies of 665 martyrs, mostly Palestinians, at the so-called cemeteries of numbers and in morgues.
According to the National Campaign, some of those bodies have been detained by Israel since the 1960s and 1970s.
The National Campaign also said that those 665 martyrs do not include the withheld bodies of citizens from the Gaza Strip, adding that there is no accurate information about their numbers.
The cemetery of numbers is a set of secret burial sites surrounded by stones and lacking proper markers. Each grave has a metal plate with a specific number instead of names for the martyrs, with each number referring to the security file of an individual.
However, human rights organizations confirm that many of these graves date back to the establishment of Israel.
