{"id":105664,"date":"2026-05-09T19:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T19:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/105664\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T19:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T19:38:08","slug":"israeli-settlers-force-palestinian-family-to-exhume-and-rebury-their-father-israel-palestine-conflict-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/105664\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli settlers force Palestinian family to exhume and rebury their father | Israel-Palestine conflict News"},"content":{"rendered":"

UN condemns confrontation in occupied West Bank as \u2018appalling and emblematic of the dehumanisation of Palestinians\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Published On 9 May 20269 May 2026<\/p>\n

A Palestinian family in the occupied West Bank has been forced by Israeli settlers<\/a>, reportedly under military protection, to dig up their father\u2019s grave and rebury him, which the United Nations is condemning as \u201cappalling and dehumanising\u201d.<\/p>\n

Eighty-year-old Hussein Asasa died of natural causes on Friday and was buried shortly after in a cemetery in Asasa village near Jenin.<\/p>\n

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His son, Mohammed, said the burial had been coordinated in advance with Israeli security forces, which provided all necessary permits.<\/p>\n

However, shortly after the burial, settlers threatened the Asasa family, ordering them to exhume the body, claiming it had been buried on land that formed part of an Israeli settlement. Under international law, such settlements are considered illegal and are not recognised as Israeli territory.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey said the land was for settlement and that burial was not allowed. We told them that this is the village\u2019s cemetery, not part of the settlement,\u201d Mohammed Asasa said.<\/p>\n

The family was left with no choice but to comply with the settlers\u2019 demands after they threatened to use a bulldozer to exhume the body themselves.<\/p>\n

According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, Israeli soldiers were present during the confrontation and also pressured the family to bury their loved one elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe found that they [the settlers] already dug the grave and reached the body,\u201d Asasa said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe continued digging and got the body and buried him in another cemetery.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Israeli military has denied giving reburial instructions to the family, saying soldiers were sent to the area after receiving reports of a confrontation involving settlers. The military said soldiers confiscated digging tools from the settlers and remained at the scene to \u201cprevent further friction\u201d.<\/p>\n

The \u2060UN Human Rights Office condemned what happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is appalling and emblematic of the dehumanisation of Palestinians that we see unfolding across the OPT (Occupied Palestinian Territories). It spares no one, dead \u2060or alive,\u201d said Ajith Sunghay, head of the OHCHR Palestinian office.<\/p>\n

Rise in settler violence<\/p>\n

Attacks by settlers have surged<\/a> since Israel launched its genocidal war on Palestinians in Gaza in October 2023.<\/p>\n

On Friday, settlers carried out several attacks across the occupied West Bank, attacking a child while setting homes and cars ablaze.<\/p>\n

In February, Amnesty International warned that global impunity was fuelling Israel\u2019s illegal annexation of the occupied West Bank \u2013 territory considered crucial for any future Palestinian state.<\/p>\n

The human rights organisation accused Israel of \u201cbrazenly\u201d expanding its illegal settlements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UN condemns confrontation in occupied West Bank as \u2018appalling and emblematic of the dehumanisation of Palestinians\u2019. Published On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1721,1722,37,497,49,42,5144,498,1243],"class_list":{"0":"post-105664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-crimes-against-humanity","9":"tag-human-rights","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-israel-palestine-conflict","12":"tag-middle-east","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-occupied-west-bank","15":"tag-palestine","16":"tag-united-nations"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116546312826714435","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}