Palestinian women in a hunger strike to demand the body of the murdered activist Occupied West Bank News

More than 60 Palestinian women start from hunger to demand the release of the body of the activist and the Palestinian English Except HathalinWho was shot dead last week in the village of Umm Al -Khayer, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

Two women received a medical treatment as a result of teamwork, which started on Thursday.

The group requires the unconditional release of the body of the 31 -year -old community leader who participated in the direction No other landDocumentary Film that won the Oscar this year. The Israeli police have set several conditions, including keeping a quick and calm burial at night outside the village, with more than 15 people attending.

The demonstrators also demand the release of seven residents of Umm al-Khair, who were arrested by the Israeli forces who remain in administrative detention-a semi-judicial process held by the Palestinians without a charge or trial.

Umm Al -Qahr is part of Masifer on the yachtA series of Palestinian villages located on the hills south of Hebron, where the residents fought for decades to stay in their homes after Israel announced that the area was “shooting” or the Israeli army training area.

Iman Hathalin, the cousin of Uda, said that women between the ages of 13 and 70 were participating in the hunger strike. “Now, I am talking, I am starving and I am breastfeeding,” I told the island. “We will continue this until the body is released, so that we can honor it with the right Islamic traditions. We have to grieve it as our religion has told us.”

AWDAH was transferred by an ambulance to the Soroka Hospital in Beer Shiva on July 28, where he announced his death after he was called an Israeli settler. Police transferred his body to the Abu Kabir National Institute for Forensic Medicine in Java for the autopsy, which was completed on Wednesday. Then they refused to return the body unless the family agrees on the restrictions in the funeral and burial.

“Tactics to break their soul”

Fathi Nimr, a researcher at Daban, the Shinaka Research, said that Israel’s policy of blocking the Palestinian body was a common practice. “This is not an isolated accident. There are hundreds of Palestinians whose bodies are used as bargaining chips until their families stop any kind of activity, resistance, or to break the spirit of resistance,” Neymer told Al -Jazeera.

He added: “He was very loved in the village, so this is a tactic to break their soul.”

Meanwhile, Yinon Levy, the Israeli settler accused of shooting the deadly shots, was released after spending a few days to arrest the house. A video clip of the accident, which was filmed by local activists, shows the opening of fire on AWDAH, who died from a gunshot wound to his chest.

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On Monday, UMM Al-Kheir residents documented Levy’s return to the area. Common photos of social media groups are visible to supervise work at work alongside army officers in the nearby Carmel settlement.

Levy is among many Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank who were Preceded Under the previous administration of the President of the United States, Joe Biden, on charges of violence against the Palestinians.

US President Donald Trump reflected those sanctions on an executive order shortly after he took office for a second term in January. The UK and the European Union, however, maintains sanctions against Levy.

Nimer said that the sanctions imposed on individuals do not do much to stop settler violence and expand the illegal Israeli outposts. He said: “Not only individuals – there should be a real international action for Israel’s punishment and to stop any of this type of behavior.”

“Continuous shock”

Iman, the cousin of Oda, said that Levy’s return makes her worried about the safety of her family. “Today, we are afraid that he will return and can do this again, and may be shot on someone else,” she said to spend the island. Her father, Suleiman Hathalin, was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in 2022.

Oneg Ben Dror, a Jaffa -based activist and friend of the Hathaleen family, said the hunger strike was a desperate gesture of a society that lost all hope to obtain justice through legal means.

“Women feel that they are on their way to protest, it is a last haven to restore the body,” she said. “Society needs mourning and … starting to recover from this terrible killing.”

She added that the presence of Levy and other settlers on the ground in the mother of Al -Alam was “a continuous shock and a nightmare for society and his wife”, who was a widow during the care of three young children.

Dozens of Israeli and international activists participated on Sunday in a march in Jerusalem, Will Obib, to the frequency of the demands expressed by hunger attackers. Four activists were arrested during the demonstrations.

The United Nations Office has reported 757 settlers’ attacks on the Palestinians since January, an increase of 13 percent of 2024, such as deaths since January near 1000.

The Israeli army intensified raids across the occupied West Bank and demolished hundreds of homes. On Monday, two Palestinians were killed by the Israeli forces in the town of Qawatia, south of Jenin. The Israeli municipality also issued a demolition targeting the home of the Palestinian population in Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem.

The Palestinian authorities say that 198 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the beginning of the year, while 538 were killed in 2024. The Israeli authorities are still at least 188 bodies.