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Israel doesn’t bother hiding that dead Palestinians were bound, tortured, shot

UK and other Western media have been obsessed with regurgitating Israel’s claims about a few missing bodies of Israelis almost certainly killed by their own side’s bombs but not yet returned by Palestinian militia groups, which Israel has used to justify its decision to again block Palestinians from receiving food after months of blockaded starvation.

The same media have been silent about the fact that many of the bodies of Palestinians that have finally been released by Israel under the ‘you cease we’ll keep firing’ agreement have not only been returned without any identification, but in many cases still bound and bearing marks of torture, with some still blindfolded after being executed with a shot to the head.

Tens, likely hundreds, of thousands bodies of Palestinian victims also remain buried under the fifty-five million tons of rubble caused by Israel’s mass destruction of buildings and infrastructure in Gaza. In a gross insult to those victims and their families, Turkiye has announced that it is sending a team of 81 people with equipment to locate the bodies of Israeli captives, who were almost certainly killed by their own side’s bombing.

Dr Shahd Abusalama, whose family was murdered in Gaza while she was on the Canary-Skwawkbox Your Show at the end of September, asked readers to imagine how that injustice must affect the Palestinians whose loved ones still lie rotting under rubble after Israel’s extermination campaign.

An initial tweet, when translated, read:

The Hebrew was: Turkey sends to Gaza a team of 81 people with equipment to locate the bodies of Israeli captives. In addition to an Egyptian-Qatari team

Dr Abusalama responded:

Israeli lives and deaths seem to count much more – and not only to ethno-supremacist Israel.

By Skwawkbox

This post was originally published on Canary.