Mustafa Barghouti: Israel Does Not Only Imprison Palestinians Who Are Alive, They Are Also Imprisoning

Mustafa Barghouti: Israel does not only imprison Palestinians who are alive, they are also imprisoning dead people; martyrs.

398 Palestinians who had already died in Israeli jails or because they were shot by the Israeli army are kept in jail.

Those who die in Israeli prisons because of sickness or because of torture have to stay in prison in refrigerators to complete their sentence.

Interviewer: how does Israel justify keeping the bodies of Palestinian prisoners or people who have died under their watch?

Mustafa Barghouti: There is no justification. 142 of the Palestinians who were killed recently, and most of them are young people and children, are kept in refrigerators, refusing to release them as a form of psychological torture against their families, and as a form of collective punishment against their families.

256 [dead prisoners] are kept in what is called numbered cemeteries where there is a number for each one of them as some of them have been there for more than 40 years. It's an awful kind of practice.