Researcher Alon Margalit published a paper in the Journal of Conflict and Security Law entitled “Accounting for Those in the Hands of the Belligerent: Security Detainees, the Missing and the Dead in the Israeli–Hamas Conflict.” This paper accordingly discusses some of the legal obligations arising when persons, or their remains, are believed to be in the hands of the belligerent party. It also considers the legality of certain measures taken to promote their repatriation. As the Israeli government refuses to hand over the bodies of Palestinians who were killed by the Israelis during the 2014 war in Gaza, as a response to the detention of two Israeli soldiers and three civilians by Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip. To check the paper, click here