Israeli settlers force exhumation of Palestinian man from West Bank grave
Key takeaways
- But shortly after the burial, the family was called back by some of the villagers, who said settlers were at the grave, ordering the grave be dug up.
- “They said the land was for settlement and that burial was not allowed.
- The settlers then threatened to dig the grave up with a bulldozer, Asasa said, so the family decided to exhume their father’s body themselves.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize ASASA, West Bank: Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank forced Palestinians to exhume the body of their father from his freshly dug village grave, his family said, near a settlement re-established by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
Hussein Asasa, 80, died on Friday of natural causes and was buried that evening at the cemetery of Asasa village near Jenin, with all the necessary permits from Israel’s military, whose forces were at the site, his son Mohammed said.
But shortly after the burial, the family was called back by some of the villagers, who said settlers were at the grave, ordering the grave be dug up.