RAMALLAH - Israel will hand over 84 bodies of Palestinian militants were killed in the conflict the two sides since the 1967 Six Day War to the Palestinian Authority, officials said on Monday (4 / 7).
Palestinian officials who first reported the repatriation treaty bodies and it was confirmed later by the Israeli military. The Israelis say that "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to handover 84 bodies of enemy combatants cemetery in the Jordan Valley to the Palestinian Authority". The Israeli military said the two sides have been holding talks to determine "the implementation of the handover and timing".
The two sides did not give details about the identities of those killed, but Palestinian Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh told AFP that the bodies are those Palestinians who were killed in armed conflict since the 1967 war when Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem. Israeli public radio explains, many of them have committed suicide attacks against Israeli civilians, such as restaurant bombing in Haifa in 2003, where 21 people were killed.
Some security officials confirmed that talks have taken place regarding the transfer of the bodies as a "goodwill gesture" to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, but so far no agreement on the bodies who will be repatriated. The bodies were now buried in the tombs of Israel with numbered rather than named, and must be identified before it can be returned to their families.
"After many requests and talks with the Israelis for more than a year, Israel agreed to hand over the corpses of the martyrs," the Sheikh said, referring to the term used for those killed in the clashes or in a suicide attack.
Sheikh said, the first group of 84 bodies would be handed over "in the coming days after a DNA test." Salem Khala, a campaigner for the return of Palestinian Palestinian militants dead, said as many as 334 Palestinian militants now buried in the graves of Israel.
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