The discovery of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals, said by Palestinian authorities to contain hundreds of bodies, have triggered calls by the U.N. rights chief and others for an international investigation.
Palestinians cover a body, which was buried in a mass grave, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in northern Gaza Strip, April 15, 2024. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa/File PhotoTHE HAGUE, April 25 -
United Nations spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said on Tuesday an investigation was needed to verify the number of bodies, but that "clearly there have been multiple bodies discovered." Kyiv says more than 1,400 people were killed in the town of Bucha while it was occupied by Russian forces following Moscow's full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, with more than 175 of the victims discovered in mass graves.Under the 1949 Geneva Conventions, to which Israel is a signatory, parties to a conflict must take all possible measures to prevent the dead from "being despoiled".
In 2002, in a case related to killings of Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, Israel's Supreme Court ruled that the Israeli Defence Ministry was responsible under international law "for the location, identification, evacuation, and burial of the bodies" of Palestinians killed in fighting. The judges said bodies should not be buried in mass graves but handed over to the Palestinian authorities.
IDF forces searching for Israeli hostages had examined bodies buried near Nasser hospital and then returned them, the IDF said. "The examination was carried out respectfully while maintaining the dignity of the deceased," it said.Evidence from mass grave exhumations played a crucial role in trials at the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia that established the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serb forces was a genocide.
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