After retrieving the body of its slain son, family holds funeral in Jerusalem under strict police restrictions

A limited number of people, mainly close family members, attended the early morning funeral today in occupied East Jerusalem of Hatem Assad Abu Nijmeh, 39, after Israel released his body following more than 40 days of holding it. The Israeli occupation forces imposed strict restrictions on the funeral, limiting the number of people allowed to attend it to only 25, depositing $4000 as a financial guarantee, and forbidding phones at the cemetery, while the forces were deployed in the vicinity of the cemetery just outside Jerusalem’s Old City Wall, and assaulted people who wanted to participate in the funeral, the National Campaign to Retrieve the Bodies of the Martyrs told WAFA. Abu Nijmeh was shot dead by the Israeli occupation forces on Jaffa Street in West Jerusalem on April 24. According to the National Campaign, the occupation authorities continue to hold about 128 slain Palestinians in its morgues, including 12 who died in the prisons, in addition to the bodies of 256 people killed since 1967 kept in what is known as the ‘numbers graves’.

Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA