Hamas denounces theft of organs from bodies taken from Gaza while Israel denies it

Hamas denounced this Wednesday that bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel to Loop they had organs “stolen”while the Israeli Government assured that it respects the integrity of corpses that are taken to determine if they correspond to hostages murdered by the Islamist group.

In a statement, Hamas assured that Israel handed over on Tuesday in Rafah, in southern Gaza, nearly eighty decomposing bodies, “difficult to recognize, after having taken them from different areas of the Strip” Palestine.

In many of them “they had stolen organs”he stated, in what he described as “lack of morals and values” by the Israeli Army.

“What the enemy did can only be described as a war crime, (…) a blatant violation of the sanctity and dignity of the dead,” he added, to ensure that they were “exhumed from their graves.”

For its part, the government of the Palestinian enclave, controlled by Hamas, harshly criticized “contempt for dignity” of the dead whose bodies were “mutilated” after you’ve been “stolen” during the war.

“The occupation – Israel – handed over unidentified bodies and refused to specify their names” and the places from which “they were stolen”he said in a statement.

Bodies have signs “clear” about what “vital organs were stolen”something that happened “more than once” during the war, he added.

The Gazan government cited that in Jabalia, in the north of the Palestinian enclave, graves and some bodies were exhumed “they were stolen”.

“They still have dozens of bodies Loop in his power,” he warned, while calling for an international investigation.

For his part, the spokesman for the Government of Israel, Eylon Levy, at a press conference in Jerusalem referred to previous statements by the Israeli Army in the sense that the bodies are being taken to be identified in case they were some of the hostages captured by Hamas. .

“The difficulties in identifying those murdered make it necessary to transfer the bodies to Israel for forensic identification,” stressed the spokesman, who defended that Israel “meets internationally accepted standards.”

“Israel is careful to respect the integrity of bodies,” he asserted.

The Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 caused more than 1,200 deaths and nearly 240 hostages were taken to Gaza.

Israel declared war on the Islamist group and launched a military offensive in Gaza that leaves at least 21,110 dead and 55,243 injured, most of them children and women, according to the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian enclave.