Apparently Israel has been digging up Palestinian graves and taking the corpses (at least temporarily), see:
- Reuters (end of article)
- Telegraph (paywall, could read only first sentence - apparently Israel is trying to identify dead hostages)
- Euro-Med-Monitor (mentioning potential Hague Conventions and Geneva Conventions violations)
- The New Arab (mentioning possible organ theft that sounds like a conspiracy theory)
- EuroNews (putting possible organ theft into context of fresh bodies taken from hospitals which is more plausible)
This problem is new to me and I'm trying to understand the implications on international relations and war crimes / crimes against humanity.
- Is this relevant for the genocide accusations, depending on how Israel does it?
- What kind of precautions would Israel need to take to make it legal? For example do they need to make sure that there are records to go with each corpse to make sure that they can be matched with their previous location/grave markers/identification?
- What about the destruction of the graveyards other than the corpses, i.e. the grave markers, works of art, infrastructure, etc.? Looking for information on destruction of grave yards quickly leads to for example this site which calls destruction of jewish graveyards cultural genocide.
