BBCA well being official in Gaza says specialists are working to determine the our bodies of the 90 Palestinians handed over by Israel in change for useless hostages held by Hamas.
In the event that they have been unsuccessful, photographs can be posted on-line so households may seek for lacking kin, Dr Mohammed Zaqout, director basic of hospitals for the Hamas-run well being ministry, mentioned.
It’s not clear whether or not the our bodies – saved at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis – belong to Palestinians who died in Gaza or in Israeli custody.
Footage filmed by a contract journalist working for the BBC at Nasser’s mortuary appeared to point out the physique of a blindfolded man. One other physique appeared to have a marks across the wrists and ankles.
The BBC has requested the Israeli navy and justice ministry for remark. They’ve beforehand rejected accusations of widespread ill-treatment and torture of detainees.
Beneath final week’s ceasefire settlement with Hamas, Israel has agreed at hand over the our bodies of 15 Palestinians in return for each deceased Israeli hostage.
Thus far, the Israeli navy has mentioned the stays of six Israeli hostages have been returned.
The physique of one other hostage – Nepalese – has additionally been returned from Gaza, together with the stays of one other one who was not a hostage.
Israel has known as on Hamas to “make all mandatory efforts” to recuperate the our bodies of the remaining 21 deceased hostages as agreed.
The final 20 residing hostages have been additionally handed over by Hamas on Monday in change for 250 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and 1,718 detainees from Gaza.
Israeli authorities handed over 45 Palestinians’ our bodies to the Worldwide Committee of the Crimson Cross (ICRC) on Monday – with one other 45 on Wednesday.
The stays have been transferred by the ICRC to Nasser hospital.
Talking exterior the ability on Tuesday, Dr Zaqout mentioned the primary group of our bodies had been saved by Israeli authorities in fridges, and that “some are clearly recognisable, whereas others are troublesome to determine”.
“As soon as confirmed, we’ll publish the names for the households to allow them to come ahead to determine and bury their family members.”
Nonetheless, Dr Zaqout mentioned well being officers had up to now acquired no data to help them, equivalent to names or the circumstances of loss of life.
“What we acquired are our bodies with codes and numbers. Nonetheless, we have been promised that… we might be supplied with the names. We’re awaiting additional clarification from our colleagues on the Worldwide Committee of the Crimson Cross.
“If we obtain the names from [Israel], we’ll publish them. If not, we might be pressured to create a hyperlink the place photographs of the identifiable martyrs might be posted.”
Additionally exterior Nasser hospital was Rasmieh Qdeih from Khuzaa, a city east of Khan Younis.
She was trying to find her son Fadi, 36, who has been lacking since 7 October 2023, when the Israeli navy launched a marketing campaign in Gaza in response to a Hamas-led assault on southern Israel wherein about 1,200 individuals have been killed and 251 have been taken hostage.
A minimum of 67,938 individuals have been killed by Israeli assaults in Gaza since then, in line with the territory’s well being ministry, whose figures are seen by the UN as dependable.
“I do not know whether or not he was imprisoned or martyred. I contacted everybody; no-one instructed me something,” Ms Qdeih mentioned.
“Each time a prisoner is launched, I ask them – have you ever seen Fadi?… Is he a prisoner, a martyr, or lacking? They are saying ‘no’. Everybody in Negev jail says they have not heard that title. Every one tells me one thing totally different.”
She mentioned the wait to be taught her son’s destiny was probably the most troublesome she had ever skilled.
“I am not upset… I simply need to know if my son is amongst them. If not, if they do not discover my son amongst these martyrs, I might be shocked.”
“If there’s something, I am going to recognise him – my son’s leg is amputated, and he has vitiligo… His hair is white. I would know him,” she added.
