The government media office in the Gaza Strip said that the Israeli occupation army exhumed 1,100 graves in the Al-Tuffah cemetery, east of Gaza, and stole 150 bodies.
The office added in a statement today that it “observed a new crime added to the series of crimes of the occupation during its war of genocide that it is waging against the Palestinian people by exhuming approximately 1,100 graves in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood cemetery in eastern Gaza, where the occupation mechanisms bulldozed them, took out the bodies of the martyrs and the dead, and trampled them.” Her dignity was insulted, without any consideration for the sanctity of the dead or the graves.”
The office explained that the occupation repeated this crime more than once, the last of which was the delivery of 80 bodies of former martyrs that it had stolen from the Gaza and North Gaza governorates, tampered with them, and delivered them mutilated, and buried them in Rafah.
Pictures from Manhattan Tribune showed the effects of the bulldozing left by the occupation forces in the Al-Tuffah Cemetery in Gaza City. The pictures show that the occupation forces’ vehicles bulldozed the cemetery, exhumed the graves, and removed the bodies.
Manhattan Tribune’s correspondent said that the occupation forces bulldozed the cemetery and left the bodies of the martyrs outside, in addition to trampling the bodies with their vehicles and leaving them outside the graves.
Eyewitnesses said that the number of bodies that were abused and removed from their graves was very large, stressing that even the dead were not spared the oppression of the occupation forces, at a time when a number of people reburied the bodies again in the graves.
The Israeli occupation forces have been bulldozing the graves of Palestinian martyrs in the Gaza Strip since the start of the ground operation in the Strip, exhuming the graves to extract the bodies, and then stealing some of the bodies.
