Israel holding bodies of 735 Palestinians, advocacy group says

The National Campaign for the Retrieval of Palestinian and Arab War Victims’ Corpses and the Disclosure of the Fate of the Missing said Israeli authorities are holding the bodies of 735 people in cemeteries and morgues in Israel. 

The organisation said the cemeteries mark the bodies of Palestinians with numbers rather than names, and that 479 bodies have been withheld since the start of 2025, including 86 people who died in detention, 67 children and 10 women.

Some of the bodies of Palestinians were not returned after the 1967 war.