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More than 280 bodies retrieved from mass graves
OIC seeks probe into ‘war crime’ over Khan Younis mass graves
The organization said in a statement that “hundreds of displaced, wounded, sick people and medical teams have been subjected to torture and abuse before being executed and buried collectively”.
It called for a probe into “a war crime, a crime against humanity, and organized state terrorism”, stressing the need for the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice “to assume their responsibilities in this regard”.
Health workers in Gaza have uncovered at least 283 bodies of people from a mass grave at the Nasser Hospital, Gaza’s civil defense agency said.
“Civil defense crews retrieved 73 more bodies from a mass grave, bringing the total figure to 283 bodies since Saturday,” the agency said in a statement.
Civil defense crews are still searching for more bodies.
A mass grave was found in the hospital’s courtyard on Saturday after the Israeli army withdrew from the city on April 7 following a 4-month ground offensive.
“We believe that there are hundreds of bodies still missing after being executed by the Israeli occupation and buried in mass graves,’’ the agency said.
According to security sources, the majority of the victims who had been buried in mass graves were women and children.
Associated Press reported the burial area in the Nasser hospital was built when Israeli forces were besieging the facility last month. At the time, people were not able to bury the dead in a cemetery and dug graves in the hospital yard, the civil defense group said.
It said some of the bodies were of people killed during the hospital siege. Others were killed when Israeli forces raided the hospital, also last
month.
After the military withdrew from Khan Younis earlier this month, residents have been returning to the site in search of the bodies of their loved ones with the aim of burying them in permanent graves elsewhere.