The family of Nimr al-Jamal, 37, finally laid him to rest on Saturday, after Israeli authorities had been holding his body for nearly five months.
Al-Jamal was killed on September 26th after he carried out a shooting attack in an illegal Israeli settlement that left two security guards and a border police officer dead.
لحظة وصول جثمان الشهيد نمر الجمل منفذ #عملية_قطنة إلى قرية بيت سوريك شمال غرب القدس المحتلة، قبل قليل.
تصوير: عصام الريماوي pic.twitter.com/yVQvaTo1LI
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) February 17, 2018
His body was returned to his family on Friday night in the village of Beit Surik in the central occupied West Bank district of Jerusalem. His family’s home had been punitively demolished by Israeli forces in November.
Israel's policy of demolishing Palestinians' houses continue; here's the story of the demolition of martyr Nimr al-Jamal's house in #Jerusalem. pic.twitter.com/VcvKmPlhEW
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) November 16, 2017
Israel has long had “cemeteries for the enemy dead,” also referred to as “cemeteries of numbers,” where Palestinians who died during attacks on Israelis are held in nameless graves marked by numbers.
#Israel Buries #Palestinians in Cemetery of Numbers.
Israeli kill a #Palestinian,bury him in this cemetery with a Number,
The hidden #truth pic.twitter.com/QgxckuU0vg— Baz4peace (@Baz4peace) September 14, 2017
Israel has attempted to negotiate the release of Palestinian bodies as well as several Hamas affiliates detained from the Gaza Strip in exchange for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers held by Hamas.
The funeral procession set off from the Palestine Medical Center in Ramallah where al-Jamal’s body was wrapped in a Palestinian flag.
He was then carried toward his hometown where his family and hundreds of locals said their final goodbyes before burying him in the town’s cemetery.
Video shows how the occupation blew up the house of the martyr Nimr al-Jamal in the town of Beit Surik in occupied Jerusalem at dawn today.#GroupPalestine #FreePalestine#BDS#BoycottIsrael#iTerrorIsrael#MB#قروب_فلسطیني pic.twitter.com/QwuZiEEUXT
— alQuds (@palestine_bs) November 15, 2017
Earlier this month the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC) reported that the Israeli government was currently holding the bodies of 19 slain Palestinians killed in the past two years, along with 260 bodies of those killed since 1967.
#BDS #JerusalemCapitalOfPalestine #AhedTamimi Israel announces that bodies of #Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces would not be returned to their families for burial. They will be held in a cemetery of numbers https://t.co/6GOLXT2sDn
— Love 4 Palestine (@WithPalestine) December 24, 2017
Israel dramatically increased its policy of withholding bodies since the beginning of a wave of unrest across the occupied Palestinian territory in October 2015, although it has scaled back on the policy in recent months.
(Ma’an, PC, Social Media)
