The Gaza Government Media Office has reported that bodies of Palestinian martyrs and prisoners returned by Israel under the ceasefire agreement show clear signs of torture, including hanging marks, ropes around necks, and close-range gunshot wounds.
According to Gaza’s Committee for the Retrieval of Bodies, a total of 195 bodies have been received from Israel through the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) since the ceasefire, which took effect on October 10.
The Government Media Office, in a statement, said that at least 54 Palestinian bodies have been identified.
Official forensic examinations reportedly confirmed that the deceased had been subjected to brutal violations while in Israeli custody.
Ismail Al-Thawabta, director of the Gaza media office, said that medical teams documented hand- and foot-binding with plastic restraints, blindfolds, burns, fractures, and evidence of being run over by tank treads.
“These acts constitute conclusive evidence of field executions,” Al-Thawabta was quoted as saying.
He called on the international community and the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and hold Israel and its supporters accountable for the crime.
Meanwhile, Palestinian families are attempting to identify the bodies through remaining features or clothing, as most were returned without names or documents. Officials said that many bodies were mutilated or dismembered, making identification extremely difficult.
Several medical reports indicate that bodies of Palestinians returned to Gaza by Israeli authorities exhibited clear signs of torture and execution, including gunshot wounds to the head.
Media reports recently quoting documents and medical sources reported that at least 135 of the mutilated bodies had been held in a notorious Israeli detention center, which has long faced allegations of torture and unlawful deaths in custody.
The Director General of Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza and a spokesperson for Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis, Dr Munir al-Bursh, said a document found inside each body bag indicated that all the bodies came from Sde Teiman, a military base in the Negev desert where Palestinian detainees were held in cages, blindfolded and handcuffed, shackled to hospital beds and forced to wear nappies.
Doctors in Khan Yunis said official examinations and field observations “clearly indicate that Israel carried out acts of murder, summary executions and systematic torture against many of the Palestinians.”
In a statement on Friday, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) emphasized that these acts reflect Israel’s profound moral collapse and its ongoing efforts to dehumanize Palestinians, even posthumously.
The statement further said that the deliberate disfigurement of bodies and the erasure of identities reflect “a Nazi-like, fascist mindset aimed at concealing evidence and evading accountability.”
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