Palestinian group slams Trump’s double standards on Israel’s detention of bodies

The Palestinian Center for Missing and Forcibly Disappeared Persons has condemned Israel’s practice of withholding approximately 1,500 Palestinian bodies, including 665 documented cases, in refrigerators and numbered graves—some dating back to the 1960s and 1970s.

"All bodies held by the Israeli occupation must be released immediately and their families must be allowed to bury them with dignity in accordance with religious and humanitarian customs and tradition," said the organisation. 

The centre called for international accountability for Israel’s crimes of body detention and enforced disappearances, criticising US President Donald Trump and the global community for applying double standards.

"The crime of withholding bodies exposes the cowardly international position that overlooks Israel’s flagrant violations of international law at a time when Trump threatens genocide in Gaza," it added.

The centre urged Trump to hold Israel to the same standards he demands of Gaza, stressing that justice must be impartial and consistent.