Israel compels Palestinian family in West Bank to exhume son’s grave, move body

Israeli forces have compelled a Palestinian family in the northern part of the West Bank to exhume their son’s grave overnight and move the body to another location, amid the Tel Aviv regime’s intensified violence against Palestinians in the occupied territory.

The official Palestinian news agency WAFA, citing local sources, reported that the Palestinian family in Jenin was forced to open up the grave and move the body to another location under the flimsy pretext that the cemetery was too close to an illegal settlement.

They added that “Occupiers had begun digging up the grave of a person who had been buried earlier today in the cemetery of the village of Asasa in preparation for exhuming his body.”

The occupation forces later arrived and compelled the family to exhume the body, move it, and rebury it in another location, claiming it was in close proximity to the settlement of Tarsala, formerly known as Sanur, near the town of Jaba’ in southern Jenin.

WAFA reported that Israeli officials returned settlers to the illegal structure built on land belonging to the town of Jaba’ in April, more than 20 years after its evacuation in 2005.

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Under former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, and following a series of military losses, Israel withdrew from settlements in the Gaza Strip and other settlements in the West Bank, including Sanur, in 2005, as part of a unilateral plan known at the time as the “disengagement plan.”

Ever since, Israeli settlers and occupation forces have been repeatedly raiding the towns of Jaba’ and Silat ad-Dhahr in the Jenin governorate, carrying out attacks against the residents.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army has issued demolition orders to several shops on the Jenin-Nablus road, owned by residents of Jaba’, asserting they are too close to the settlement.

On April 29, Israeli authorities approved the construction of 126 illegal settlement units in Jenin.

The occupied West Bank, including East al-Quds, has experienced a surge in Israeli military offensives, including raids, abductions, shootings, and excessive use of force, alongside rising attacks by illegal settlers on Palestinians and their property.

Attacks by Israeli troops and settlers have killed at least 1,155 Palestinians, wounded about 11,750, and led to the kidnapping of nearly 22,000 individuals since the onset of the Gaza genocidal war in October 2023, according to official Palestinian figures.

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