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        <h1 id="reader-title">Israeli High Court Postpones Decision on
          Setting Date for Returning of Bodies of Extrajudicially
          Executed Palestinians</h1>
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                                        <p align="center"><strong>Israeli
                                            High Court Postpones
                                            Decision on Setting Date for
                                            Returning of Bodies of
                                            Extrajudicially Executed
                                            Palestinians</strong></p>
                                        <p class="rtejustify">Ramallah -
                                          The Israeli High Court decided
                                          to postpone looking into the
                                          petition filed by Addameer
                                          attorney Adv. Mohammad Mahmoud
                                          regarding setting a date for
                                          returning the bodies of
                                          Palestinians who were
                                          extrajudicially executed to
                                          their families.</p>
                                        <p class="rtejustify">The judges
                                          stated that the hearing will
                                          be postponed until the end of
                                          the Jewish holidays and that
                                          the return of the bodies will
                                          be subject to extreme security
                                          measures. However, the
                                          prosecution did not provide
                                          the court with the details of
                                          the before mentioned security
                                          measures. The occupation
                                          authorities have returned most
                                          of the bodies of Palestinians
                                          who were extrajudicially
                                          executed in recent months to
                                          the families. However, they
                                          continue to  hold a number of
                                          the bodies despite the fact
                                          that some of the families
                                          agreed to the extremely harsh
                                          and arbitrary conditions.</p>
                                        <p class="rtejustify">Addameer
                                          considers the decision to keep
                                          the bodies of 15 Palestinians
                                          who were extrajudicially
                                          executed by Israeli forces and
                                          police for more than six
                                          months an extremely
                                          humiliating practice and one
                                          degrading to the human dignity
                                          of the deceased, family
                                          members and to the cultural
                                          and religious norms of
                                          Palestinian society. Addameer
                                          stresses that this practice
                                          constitutes collective
                                          punishment that targets the
                                          families of the deceased and
                                          aims to obstruct any attempts
                                          to investigate the
                                          extrajudicial executions.  </p>
                                        <p class="rtejustify">The
                                          occupation authorities
                                          continue to withhold the
                                          bodies of 15 Palestinians who
                                          were killed during the recent
                                          uprising that started in the
                                          beginning of October 2015. The
                                          names of the extrajudicially
                                          executed Palestinians that are
                                          still being held by the
                                          occupation authorities are:
                                          Thaer Abdul Salam Abu Ghazaleh
                                          (whose body has been  withheld
                                          the longest period), Hasan
                                          Khalid Jibril Manasra,
                                          Mohammad Khalil Olayyan, Alaa
                                          Dauod Abu Jamal, Mutaz
                                          Oweisat, Mohhamd Ali Nimer,
                                          Abdul Mohsen Shaher Hassouneh,
                                          Mohmmad Abu Khalaf, Fadwa Abu
                                          Teir, Bashar Masalha, Fuad Abu
                                          Rajab, Abdul Rahman Raddad,
                                          Abdul Malek Abu Kharoub,
                                          Mohammad Kaloti, and Abdul
                                          Fatah Sharif. </p>
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