he Israeli newspaper “Yisrael Hume” reported that Israeli Defense Minister, Benny Gantz, intends to change the army’s policy by restricting the policy of releasing the bodies of Palestinian martyrs, and not to hand over the bodies to their families. The newspaper pointed out that the Israeli Defense Minister had recently rejected the petition regarding the release of the body of the Palestinian martyr Ahmed Erekat, who was killed by Israeli soldiers last month.
According to the newspaper, in the beginning, the Supreme Court in Israel accepted the petition, because Israel refuses to release the bodies of Palestinians who exclusively belong to the Hamas party, according to a decision issued in 2017, and because Erekat does not belong to Hamas, his body could have been released. But it seems that Gantz is seeking to change the policy, and refused to release all the bodies, regardless of affiliation.
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