After releasing on Tuesday the body of Wadi Abu Rmouz, from Jerusalem, who died while in Israeli custody on January 28 of wounds sustained from Israeli gunfire, the Israeli occupation authorities are still withholding bodies of 12 Palestinian freedom fighters who died while incarcerated in its prisons under different circumstances, today said the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). It said the longest withheld body is for the prisoner Anis Douleh, who died in 1980. The remaining 11 include Aziz Oweisat, who died in 2018, Faris Baroud, Nassar Taqatqa, and Bassam Sayeh, who died in 2019, Sadi Gharabli and Kamal Abu Waer, who died in 2020, Sami al-Imour, who died in 2021, Daoud Zubeidi, Mohammad Maher Turkman, and Nasser Abu Hmeid, who died in 2022, and Khader Adnan, who died on May 2 of this year after three months of hunger strike in protest against his administrative detention.

Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA