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Israel returns ‘decomposed’ bodies of 89 Palestinians to Gaza

People watch as bodies that were taken and later released by Israel are buried during a mass funeral in Khan Younis in southern Gaza [Bashar Taleb/AFP]

Israel has returned the bodies of nearly 90 Palestinians killed in its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has said.

Yamen Abu Suleiman, the director of the Palestinian Civil Emergency Service in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, said on Monday that it was unclear whether the bodies had been dug up from cemeteries by the army during the ground offensive, or whether they were “detainees who had been tortured and killed”.

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