Israel’s military confiscated and continues to withhold from families and relatives the bodies of 35 Palestinian children killed in the occupied territory since 2016, a child rights group said, Al Jazeera reports.

In violation of international humanitarian and human rights law, Israeli authorities continue to hold the remains of slain Palestinian children in what grieving families see as an act of “collective punishment”, Defense for Children International—Palestine said.

The latest body of a child taken by Israeli forces was that of 16-year-old Shadi Wissam Mohammad Shiha, who was killed by Israeli sniper fire on Tuesday night in the village of Anata, northeast of Jerusalem, while closing up his family-owned car wash.

“Palestinian children cannot rest even in death as Israeli authorities continue confiscating children’s bodies and withholding them from their families indefinitely,” the organisation said in a statement.