Israel slammed for sending 88 unidentifiable bodies of Palestinians to Gaza; Inhumane and criminal move, says govt

Agencies Gaza: Gaza’s Ministry of Health has refused to receive a container carrying the bodies of 88 Palestinians sent from Israel without prior coordination or information about their identities. The procedures for receiving the container were suspended until Israel provides full data with the victims’ names, time of death and the location they were taken from, the ministry said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app on Wednesday. This is “the minimum rights of these people and their families”, it said.

Gaza’s Government Media Office called the shipment of unidentifiable bodies an “inhumane and criminal move”, in a separate statement. The Palestinian Civil Defence said on Wednesday that at least 53 Palestinians have been killed across the Gaza Strip in Israeli attacks on their homes and shelters in the past 24 hours. At least 41,495 have been killed and 96,006 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. In Israel, the number of those killed in the attacks on October 7 was at least 1,139.