Today, Wednesday, dozens of bodies of Palestinian martyrs were buried in the Khan Yunis area in the Gaza Strip in a mass grave, after they were detained by the Israeli occupation in the Shifa Medical Complex.
This step comes as the Israeli army continues to occupy the Shifa Medical Complex and transform it into a military barracks, a mass grave, and a headquarters for direct killing, according to the government media office in Gaza.
At dawn on Wednesday, the Israeli army stormed the Al-Shifa complex after besieging it for days, as it contains civilians who were displaced from their homes as a result of the ongoing Israeli bombing in the area.
Burying the bodies of about 100 martyrs released by the occupation from Al-Shifa Complex
Al-Arabi correspondent from Gaza, Saleh Al-Natour, reported that about 100 bodies of martyrs were released by the occupation from the Shifa Medical Complex and were buried in a mass grave in the Al-Nasmawi neighborhood in the city of Khan Yunis, specifically in the Turkish cemetery.
He explained that these bodies belong to martyrs and were being held by Israel and are located in the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, adding that they were released with coordination from the International Committee of the Red Cross.
He added that the bodies of the martyrs arrived in a truck and were removed from it to be buried in the cemetery that was dug in the western region of the city of Khan Yunis.
He pointed out that there was a group of volunteers and crews affiliated with Nasser Hospital that carried out the burial ceremony for the bodies of the martyrs.
While he pointed out that there are no relatives or acquaintances of the martyrs who were buried, Al-Arabi’s correspondent pointed out that among them are also those whose identity is unknown, and that they also include children, in addition to the presence of body parts inside the bags.
He warned that there is a fear that this matter will also be repeated in the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, which is besieged by the occupation forces, and the medical teams are also unable to deal with a number of martyrs inside the hospital or take them out for burial.
One of the supervisors of the burial process said: “The process of removing the martyrs from Al-Shifa Hospital took place through the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah and Gaza,” noting that the Red Cross asked them to come in a large vehicle after they had gone in a small car to receive the bodies, whose number was estimated at 111. A martyr.
He added that the bodies were received from the area separating the south and the north at the Engineering Factory, while the Al-Arabi correspondent explained that this area is the point located on Salah al-Din Street, where the checkpoint was erected by the Israeli occupation forces.
