Wife of martyred Palestinian doctor urges pressure on Israel to return his body
The wife of Palestinian doctor Adnan al-Bursh, the renowned orthopedic surgeon tortured to death in Israeli detention, has called on the international community to pressure the Israeli regime to return his body.
Al-Bursh was martyred in April 2024 after nearly four months in Israeli custody.
On Monday, his wife, Yasmin al-Bursh, announced a campaign to recover her husband’s body, along with the bodies of other Palestinian prisoners withheld by the Israeli regime in the “cemetery of numbers.”
She also urged an international investigation into the deaths of Palestinian detainees.
During a sit-in by the families of prisoners held in Israeli jails outside the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Gaza, Yasmin al-Bursh said, “The same occupation that negotiated extensively with mediators to retrieve all of its dead is withholding our martyrs — a clear example of the double standards it practices.”
“We call on the Red Cross and international organizations to act urgently so we can bury our slain loved ones in a dignified and humane manner, in accordance with our faith,” she added.
Last month, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas condemned the systematic killing and torture of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails as “full-fledged war crimes,” urging the international community to act.
The movement stated that since the start of the occupying regime’s genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip in October 2023, dozens of Palestinian detainees have been killed and many more subjected to brutal mistreatment as part of an organized campaign of repression.
The number of detainees who have died in Israeli custody since the beginning of Israel's genocidal war has exceeded one hundred. The identities of 84 of them have been announced, including 50 detainees from Gaza.
Survivors and human rights groups have reported shocking abuses in Israeli prisons, including severe beatings, scalding with boiling water, dog attacks, sexual violence, as well as denial of food, sleep, and medical care.
Israel has so far killed more than 70,000 Palestinians since launching the genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, following the al-Aqsa Storm operation, before a ceasefire deal was reached in the strip last October.
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