Israeli razing of cemeteries and necroviolence against Palestinians

During the Gaza war, at least 16 cemeteries in the Gaza Strip were reported to have been damaged or destroyed by Israeli forces, according to investigations by CNN, the New York Times and Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stated that some cemetery disturbances were carried out as part of military operations, including searches for the bodies of Israeli hostages based on intelligence reports, such as the body of the last remaining hostage, Ran Gvili.

Some reports indicate incidents of necroviolence affecting Palestinians corpses in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. These include desecration or destruction of graves, withholding of bodies from families to prevent traditional mourning, and the use of numbered graves without personal identifiers, practices which have been described as dehumanizing.

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