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Israeli court orders exhumation of dead Palestinian terrorists

January 20, 2014 15:19
Israel Supreme Court

ByRosa Doherty, Rosa Doherty

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Palestinian militants killed by Israelis have been exhumed and returned to their families for reburial.

Among the bodies is that of Majdi Khanafer, a resident of a village south of Jenin who was killed in 2002 by the IDF as he was on his way to carry out an attack.

A spokesperson for the Israeli army said: “In accordance with a Supreme Court decision, the [military] has begun the return of bodies of terrorists to their respective families in the Palestinian Authority."

The first body was returned to his family in the West Bank town of Jenin on Sunday.