Tel Aviv : , Nov 23, 2003 – Dozens of Palestinians marched in Jenin West Bank, demanding 90 bodies that Israel had withheld for so many years. Issam Arouri, director of “Jerusalem Legal Aid Center”, stated that in addition to keeping 90 bodies in Israeli morgues and 254 in numbered graveyards by the Jewish State authorities, he also buried another 254 in numbered graveyards.According to Xinhua, the news agency.
He said that Mohammed al-Shalaldeh, the Palestinian Minister of Justice, plans to bring this matter up at UN.
Palestinians believe Israel withholds Palestinian bodies to make bargaining points in any prisoner swap agreement.
The armed wing in Gaza of the Islamic Resistance Movement, (Hamas), announced it had taken four Israeli prisoners, two soldiers, and two civilians.
It did not give any information about their fate.
Egypt brokered in 2011 a prisoner swap agreement between Israel and Hamas in which Israel freed more than 1000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier.
It was the first prisoner swap agreement between Israel and Hamas for ten years.
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