The Palestinian Center for Missing and Forcibly Disappeared Persons revealed today, Thursday, that the "authorities of the occupying entity" are holding the bodies of about 1,500 Palestinians, including 665 documented bodies, in refrigerators and "numbered graves", some of them since the sixties and seventies of the last century.

The center said in its statements: "All bodies held by the occupation must be released immediately and their families must be enabled to bury them with dignity in accordance with religious and human customs and traditions."

It added: "The occupation must be held accountable internationally for its crimes related to detaining bodies and enforced disappearance, indicating that allowing the occupation to continue its crimes without accountability is a stain on the forehead of the international community that claims to defend human rights."

The center continued: "US President Donald Trump and the international community should not deal with the issue of detaining bodies with duality, explaining that the crime of detaining bodies exposes the cowardly international position that overlooks "Israel's" blatant violations of international law at a time when Trump threatens genocide in Gaza.

It stressed that it would be more appropriate for the US President, who threatened the people of Gaza due to detaining a number of bodies, to apply the same standards to "Israel", which has been detaining hundreds of bodies for decades.

The center explained that "the arbitrary detention of the bodies of martyrs contradicts the most basic principles of international humanitarian law and international human rights law related to it."

It said: "Israel" continues to forcibly conceal the fate of hundreds of Palestinians after arresting them from inside the Gaza Strip, noting that the Zionist occupation prevents the entry of equipment necessary to retrieve the bodies of victims from under the rubble, which causes a health and environmental disaster that threatens the lives of thousands of civilians.