The Israeli army has also denied “baseless” accusations that it buried the bodies of Palestinians in mass graves inside the Nasser hospital in the Gaza Strip, after the UN called for An international investigation.
The Israeli army defends itself and says that it dug up and then reburied the bodies found in the mass graves in the area of the Nasser hospital in the Gaza Strip, in search of those of the Israeli hostages, reports AFP and DPA, taken over by Agerpres.
“The accusations that the Israeli army buried Palestinian bodies are baseless,” the Israeli army said.
“during his operation in the area of the Nasser hospital” in the city of Khan Younis, “in an attempt to locate hostages and missing persons, bodies buried by Palestinians were examined (…) cautiously And only in places where the information indicated the possible presence of hostages”, explained the army, giving assurances that “it respected the dignity of the dead”.
“The examined bodies that were not those of the hostages were taken to their place,” the army added.
The UN has called for an international investigation into the mass graves discovered in the main two hospitals in the Gaza Strip, stressing the need for an independent investigation in the face of the current “climate of impunity”, AFP and Reuters note.
The High Commissioner for Human Rights declared itself “horrified” by the destruction of the two largest hospitals in the Gaza Strip, al-Shifa hospital and the Nasser medical complex in Khan Younis. In a statement, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, called for “independent, effective and transparent investigations”.
A civil defense official in the Gaza Strip said on March that his teams discovered on Saturday the bodies of about 340 people in mass graves inside the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis. Some bodies had their hands tied, he added.
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