Medical reports and field evidence suggest several Palestinians were executed after being tortured and run over by Israeli military vehicles, the Prisoners’ Information Office said Friday, as 30 more bodies were returned to Gaza by Israel through the Red Cross.
Earlier in the day, 30 bodies of Palestinians released by Israel via the Red Cross arrived at Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, bringing the total number of bodies handed over since Oct. 14 to 225, according to the office.
"Traces of torture, handcuffing, burns, and crushing by military vehicles were found on their bodies,” the information office said in a statement.
"Keeping the bodies in refrigerators and burying them in the so-called ‘cemeteries of numbers’ reflects a deliberate policy to humiliate Palestinians, both alive and dead, and constitutes a blatant violation of international humanitarian law.”
The Palestinian bodies are received without identification, forcing families to recognize their relatives through remaining physical features or clothing, amid the lack of forensic testing capabilities due to the Israeli blockade and the destruction of laboratories in Gaza.
