Medical sources and eyewitnesses reported that among the martyrs were four Palestinians killed while waiting for aid in Khan Yunis, while two other Palestinians were killed in an airstrike targeting a house in the Al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City. Nine Palestinians were also injured in an airstrike targeting a tent near the Sheikh Radwan cemetery north of the city.
Since August 11, the Israeli occupation army has been waging a large-scale offensive on the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City. This has included the demolition of homes using booby-trapped robots, artillery shelling, indiscriminate gunfire, and forced displacement, all part of an Israeli plan to reoccupy the remaining Gaza Strip.
On Sunday, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor reported that the army was bombing and destroying residential areas south, east, and north of Gaza City, as part of a simultaneous attack "creeping with comprehensive destruction and systematic erasure" as part of Tel Aviv's plan to occupy the city.
On August 8, the Israeli government approved a plan proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to gradually reoccupy the entire Gaza Strip, starting with Gaza City.
In the southern Gaza Strip, two Palestinians, including a child, were killed in an airstrike targeting tents housing displaced people in the Qadisiya camp, west of Khan Yunis. Three Palestinians, including a child and a girl, were also killed and others were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a tent housing displaced people in the Asdaa area, north of Khan Yunis.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health in Gaza recorded 10 deaths in the past 24 hours due to famine and malnutrition, including two children, bringing the total number of famine-related deaths to 313, including 119 children.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with American support, has been committing genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and displacement, ignoring international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
The genocide left 62,819 Palestinians dead and 158,629 wounded, most of them children and women. More than 9,000 people were missing, hundreds of thousands were displaced, and a famine killed 313 Palestinians, including 119 children.
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Detention of the bodies of hundreds of martyrs
In a related context, the National Campaign for the Recovery of Martyrs' Bodies confirmed that Israel is holding 726 Palestinian bodies, including those of 67 children and 10 women, in refrigerators and secret graves known as "cemeteries of numbers," as part of a systematic policy to deprive families of the opportunity to bury their loved ones with dignity.
The National Campaign stated that "withholding bodies began as an irregular military practice, but it quickly became entrenched in the Israeli legal structure. Since 1967, hundreds have been buried in secret numbered cemeteries. In 2004, a directive was issued temporarily restricting this practice, but it returned with force in 2015, based on the British Emergency Regulations of 1945."
She added: "In 2017, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that there was no legal basis for the detention, but postponed implementation of the ruling to give the government a chance to legislate to legitimize it. The Knesset responded by amending the Anti-Terrorism Law in 2018, granting the police formal authority to detain bodies."
According to the campaign, "The court reversed its decision in 2019 and authorized detention for the purpose of plea bargaining, before the policy was expanded in 2020 to include all Palestinians accused of carrying out attacks."
For its part, Hamas considered the occupation's detention of the martyrs' bodies a "brutal Zionist crime and a flagrant violation of all international and humanitarian laws."
Every year, on August 27, Palestinians commemorate the "National Day for the Recovery of the Bodies of Palestinian and Arab Martyrs," which was approved by the Council of Ministers on August 3, 2008.
