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Op-ed by former Director of PLO Commission of Prisoners' Affairs and former PA Minister of Prisoners' Affairs Issa Karake Headline: "The flame of the [morgue] refrigerator and the words of the bodies" "If the human rights institutions would listen well, if they would approach the door of the..."

Fatah Central Committee member Jamal Muhaisen: "There are Israeli testimonies acknowledging that organs are being taken from the bodies of young Martyrs. While the body is with the Israelis, organs are taken according to Israel’s needs, and afterwards they hand over the body [to the PA] with..."

“Speakers agreed that the struggle to end our prisoners’ suffering in the occupation’s prisons and free them all must continue. They denounced the occupation’s policy of stealing Martyr (Shahid) prisoners’ organs and using their bodies for medical purposes. This was said during the inauguration...”

"Ramallah and El-Bireh District Governor Laila Ghannam said that Israel's holding the bodies of Martyrs is a mark of shame on the forehead of the entire world. She noted that the occupation is not satisfied with killing them, but goes further and prevents family members from looking at [the bodies]..."

"Minister of Prisoners' Affairs, Issa Karake, stressed at a press conference held yesterday at the governmental media center in Ramallah, that the national campaign to bring back the bodies of the missing Martyrs (Shahids) (i.e., terrorists) is playing an important role in ending the [practice of]..."

“[Issa Karake, Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs] said: ‘We are meeting today while hundreds of bodies of Shahids (Martyrs) of our people are imprisoned by the occupation government in the cemeteries with secret numbers. He noted that Israel is punishing the mothers. It holds the bodies as though it...”

Headline: “Hebron: Honoring families of Shahids (Martyrs) whose bodies are being held by the occupation” “The national campaign to return the bodies of Palestinian and Arab Shahids, in cooperation with the Prisoners’ Club and the Friends of the Shahid Association, honored the families of the...”

“[PA] Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs, Issa Karake… visited the home of the Palestinian Shahida (Martyr)… Her body is still being held in the numbered military cemetery [i.e., Israeli cemetery for terrorists] within ’48 occupied land (euphemism for Israel).”

Issa Karake, Minister of Prisoners' Affairs, accuses Israel of stealing body parts: "Issa Karake, Minister of Prisoners' Affairs, emphasized the need to raise public Palestinian awareness concerning examination of the bodies of Shahids (Martyrs) and agreement to their autopsies, in order to halt..."

Issa Karake, PA Minister of Prisoners' Affairs: "Would you believe that Israel punishes not only those who are alive, but also the dead, by holding their corpses in secret military cemeteries inside Israel for many years, and when it returns some of the Shahids (Martyrs) to their families, they..."

"Minister of Prisoners and Released [Prisoners], Issa Karake… stated that Israel hides the corpses of the Shahids (Martyrs) in order to evade responsibility for the organ theft that was carried out on these bodies…"