The Israeli occupation is withholding the bodies of 676 slain Palestinians in cemeteries of numbers and refrigerators, according to the National Campaign for Retrieval of the Bodies of Palestinian War Victims, Wafa reports.

The campaign said in a press statement that the occupation authorities were still holding the bodies of three Palestinians gunned down in Jenin, bringing the total number of the bodies of slain Palestinians withheld in cemeteries of numbers and refrigerators to 676.

It added that among the total number of bodies, there were the bodies of 71 detainees, 60 children, and nine women.

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