RAMALLAH, Haitham Mubarak, a 17-year-old Palestinian boy killed by the Israeli occupation forces two months ago and his body withheld since then, was buried today in his hometown after Israel finally released his body and handed it over yesterday to his family.
Hundreds of mourners took part in the slain teenager’s funeral in his hometown of Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah, and chanted slogans decrying the ongoing Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people living under its apartheid regime.
Yesterday, the Israeli occupation authorities handed over the body of the teenager to the Palestinian Red Crescent two months after he was shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the village of Bittin, east of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.
Mubarak was shot dead on September 8 by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint near Bittin for no apparent reason and at point blank.
Israeli occupation authorities are currently withholding corpses of at least 256 slain Palestinians either in mortuaries or numbered cemeteries where the graves are identified by numbers rather than names.
Human rights groups have described this Israeli procedure as a cruel practice and a violation of international humanitarian law and the United Nations Convention against Torture.
Source: Palestine News & Info Agency