• Jewish settlers dug up the freshly dug grave of 80-year-old Palestinian Hussein Asasa in the village of Asasa near Jenin in the West Bank.
  • The family was forced to exhume the body themselves after settlers, armed with automatic rifles, threatened to do it instead.
  • The settlers are from the Sa-Nur settlement, which was recently reestablished by the Israeli government.
  • The Israeli army later said it confiscated tools from the settlers, but the family accuses them of standing by.
  • The UN human rights office condemned the incident as ‘appalling and emblematic of the dehumanisation of Palestinians’.
  • All settlements on Palestinian land are illegal under international law.

Sources & Links