By Mohammed al-Hajjar and Mera Aladam – Middle East Eye Oct 15, 2025
Bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel show signs of torture, execution and being run over by tanks, Middle East Eye has learned.
Israel handed over the unidentified remains of around 45 individuals to Gaza on Tuesday as part of its prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas.
A source at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which received the bodies via the International Committee of the Red Cross, told MEE that some of the deceased were recently killed, while others arrived in a decomposed state or as partial remains.
Several bodies bore signs of severe abuse, including strangulation marks, broken bones and mutilation.
Some were found with their hands and feet bound and their eyes blindfolded. Others were missing limbs.
The source added that some of the bodies are believed to belong to individuals killed on 7 October 2023, after being run over by Israeli tanks.
An additional 45 bodies were returned on Wednesday and are yet to be examined, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The handover of bodies comes under the terms of the ceasefire agreement reached on Friday to end the war on Gaza and exchange prisoners and remains.
On Monday, Hamas released 20 living Israeli captives in exchange for around 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.
The Palestinian movement has since released seven out of a total of 28 deceased Israeli captives, with the rest expected to be handed over once located and recovered.
In return, Israel has so far released 90 Palestinian bodies it had withheld before, during and after the war. A total of around 400 Palestinian bodies are expected to be returned as part of the exchange.
‘Cemeteries of numbers’
Israel has long maintained a policy of withholding the bodies of Palestinians and other Arabs, dating back to 1948. Dozens are buried in what are known as “cemeteries of numbers”, marked only by numerical identifiers.
Others who were killed by Israeli forces or died in Israeli custody remain held in morgues.
The exact number of Palestinian bodies withheld by Israel remains unknown.
According to the National Campaign for the Retrieval of Palestinian and Arab War Victims’ Corpses and the Disclosure of the Fate of the Missing, Israel is currently holding the remains of at least 735 known individuals, including 10 women and 67 children – among them a 13-year-old Palestinian killed by Israeli forces in 1968.
n addition, a spokesperson for the Palestinian health ministry earlier this month said Israeli forces have exhumed and taken at least 2,450 Palestinian bodies from graves during the war on Gaza.
Media reports also indicate that a further 1,500 bodies have been held at the Sde Teiman military detention camp since October 2023, also marked only by numbers.
Several human rights groups have repeatedly condemned Israel’s long-standing policy of withholding Palestinian bodies, calling for their immediate release and return to families.
Under Israeli law, the retention of Palestinian bodies is permitted and has been implemented across the occupied Palestinian territory.
Although this practice was previously considered illegal, a 2018 amendment to the Israeli Counterterrorism Law – later upheld by the Israeli Supreme Court – authorised the state to withhold the bodies of Palestinians deemed to have committed acts of violence.
However, international humanitarian law explicitly prohibits the withholding of bodies. It states that the dead must be treated with dignity, “honourably buried” and “if possible according to the rites of the religion to which they belonged”.
Article 130 of the Fourth Geneva Convention further stipulates that the graves of the deceased must be “respected, properly maintained, and marked in such a way that they can always be recognised.”
Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation
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Jews say this will be rolled out across the UK non supporters of Israel will be at risk of bank account closures
Legal affairs correspondent“This is just inexplicable and obviously it’s not inexplicable because it’s to do with Palestine. It’s as simple as that but it’s inexplicable in that this was an amount of money we’ve got from retirement, put into a savings account, rolled it forward in a fixed-term bond, when that finished, rolled it forward in another one.
“They’d accepted it quite happily to be rolled forward (again) as little as a month or two ago, and there were no transactions, no link to any other This kind of behaviour has just never happened in our lifetime of activism before, and is suddenly happening to activists and to organisations and to people. If it isn’t Palestine, then why doesn’t YBS say what reason it is?”
The GMFP account was frozen without explanation – and remains so – on 10 July, five days after Palestine Action was proscribed, despite it having no connection to the banned group, raising fears of a wider clampdown on groups and individuals opposing the Israeli military assault on Gaza is still open
GMFP’s listed activities include “letter-writing, individual consumer boycotting, through bike-riding, information stalls, leafleting, and our increasing social media output, to widespread protests on the streets and more direct action”.
In fact everyone in the UK who does not support us us at risk
Nicholson said another signatory for GMFP’s account, which had been open for almost 40 years with various organisations later incorporated into Virgin Money, had also had their personal account closed but did not wish to be named.
Solomon Black said on radio this is the UKs punishment for the marches etc in support of palestine
Scottish PSC had its account frozen by Unity Trust bank in June, purportedly because it had a button on its website to donate to Palestine Action before the group was banned on 5 July. The button was removed after proscription, yet the account remains frozen.
Zog media can’t stop telling us Hamas has failed its part of the ‘ceasefire’ agreement because Hamas has failed to return 20 dead Israeli ‘hostages’. It’s really all and only about Israeli hostages live and dead and interviews with their Israeli relatives.
As usual Zog media doing no favours for itself or its listening audience.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a prominent Russian author and dissident, famously stated, “The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators.” This quote highlights a critical concern regarding the influence of media on public perception and awareness of significant historical events. Solzhenitsyn’s work often critiqued the manipulation of truth and the role of media in shaping narratives that serve the interests of those in power.
Zog media thinks it can still get away with news that it’s the Israelis who are the victims.
It’s over for Israel and it’s over for Zog media.
So let it be written; so let it be done.
Amen.
Indeed..
They love their torture do the yiddin..there are reams of books* about what they got up to in Russia…and if you are a churchian you could read about the Maccabees..of course that was written by the jewe Josephus..so it was probably orders of magnitude more fruity…
Landowsky’s Red Symphony is a good place to start…if you have the stomach..
welcome to your world of mongrel (Jew-Arab) chaos
Where is Adolf Hitler? Where is Otto Skorzenny?
all what jews accuse the goyim of they are
doing + inventing themself very inteligently .
To put it politely the Zionist state has had its way with Palestinian prisoners. Many, many individual war crimes have been committed against innocent Palestinians by Israeli Occupation Forces…
And the genocide continues…
If Israel hadn’t been beaten they’d still be killing.
where is Harbinger Lasha darkmoon Chris Cooper ?
blessed are the truthtellers
I still miss Darkmoon. Sheeeeeiiiiiiit!!!