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Monday, July 4, 2011
(PLO Arabic version terms it victory for PA) IDF and PLO cover story: PM Netanyahu trades bodies of 84 terrorists for hopes of good will

[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: As of this writing it appears that the trade was
for hopes of Palestinian good will rather than anything concrete. While the
English report of WAFA is somewhat neutral, the Arabic version makes it
clear that this is considered a Palestinian victory ]

#1. IDF Spokesperson Announcement
For Immediate Release
04 July, 2011 20:00

84 Palestinian Bodies to be Transferred to the Palestinian Authority

A number of months ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved the
transfer of 84 bodies from the Jordan Valley cemetery of enemy combatants to
the Palestinian Authority.

The request by the Palestinian Authority for the transfer was approved
following extensive staff work and coordination with all relevant
authorities.

Over the past few days, Civil Administration officials and their Palestinian
counter parts have been discussing the execution of the transfer and its
exact timing.
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#2. PLO news agency report - English version

Israel to Release 82 Palestinian Bodies
Date : 4/7/2011 Time : 14:10
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=16619
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RAMALLAH, July 4, 2011 (WAFA) – Palestinian Chairman of the General
Authority for Civil Affairs, Hussein al-Sheikh, said Monday that Israel will
release the remains of 84 Palestinians which have been held by the Israeli
government since 1967 and buried in unknown cemeteries in Israel.

The Palestinian bodies are buried in graves which hold numbers and not
names; these cemeteries are referred to as “Numbered Graves.” Each number
has a file containing information and data about the dead Palestinian.

Al-Sheikh told WAFA, “After intensive negotiations which lasted over a year,
the Israeli government decided to release 84 bodies, most of whom were held
since 1967; Israel will release another 102 bodies without preconditions.”

He said the funeral will be held in the Presidential headquarters in
Ramallah, after which their families will receive the bodies.

Israel has previously released the Lebanese prisoner, Samir al-Qintar and
Palestinians’ bodies in exchange for the bodies of Israeli soldiers who were
killed in Lebanon.

Coordinator of the national campaign to retrieve the Palestinian bodies held
by the Israeli government, Salim Khilla, said Israel holds over 317 bodies
of Palestinians which were buried in graves without gravestones in unknown
cemeteries.

Khilla added that there are four cemeteries which contain over 800 graves of
Palestinians since 1967.

M.H./F.J.

#3. PLO news agency report - Arabic version

Hussein al-Sheikh: Leadership will receive 84 Martyrs of the numbers in a
matter of days

Date: 07/04/2011 Time: 11:30
[Google translation]
http://www1.wafa.ps/arabic/index.php?action=detail&id=108551

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Ramallah, 07/04/2011 (WAFA) - The head of the General Authority of Civil
Affairs Hussein al-Sheikh, said Monday that Israel would release Josmana for
84 of the bodies of the martyrs of the figures withheld since 1967.

Shaikh said in an interview with Wafa ': that after intensive contacts and
negotiations with the Israeli side had lasted for more than a year, Israel
decided to release the martyrs tombs who Israel is holding most of them
since 1967, pointing out that the leadership will take over 84 in a first
installment during the next few days after procedures to make sure their
medical examinations.

The Sheikh confirmed that the bodies of martyrs among the Arabs, too,
explaining that he remained about 102 figures in the tombs of the body will
be received later from Israel without preconditions, and through intensive
follow-up of the Palestinian leadership.

He explained that the funeral will be conducted for these martyrs in the
provincial headquarters in Ramallah in the presence of President Mahmoud
Abbas and the Palestinian national leadership, and then hand them over to
their relatives.

The Israeli security sources said, in the Israeli media, commenting on the
news, had been negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis on the
bodies of prisoners, but is not reached full agreement on the return of the
bodies.

The Israeli authorities had returned the bodies of Palestinian martyrs in a
deal exchanging the Israeli soldiers who were killed in Lebanon, their
bodies were returned for the release of Lebanese prisoner Samir Kuntar and
the bodies of three Palestinians dead.

In turn, thanked the coordinator of the national campaign to recover the
bodies of the martyrs Salem trait, the Palestinian leadership for its
efforts in following up this file and recover the bodies of the martyrs, in
addition to the efforts of the government headed by Salam Fayyad, which
issued a decision on 3.8.2009 to follow up this file, in addition to the
combined efforts of families of martyrs , and the efforts of relevant
ministries and institutions.

He explained that the occupation is holding more of 317 Palestinian martyrs
in secret graves is a small cemetery, surrounded by stones without evidence,
and is installed above the tomb of the metal plate with a certain number,
and that is called the graveyard of the numbers they take the numbers to
substitute the names of the martyrs. And each number there is a special file
maintained by the responsible security, including information and data for
each martyr.

And the trait that Israel is holding the bodies of the martyrs the
Palestinians and Arabs in the four graves According to Israeli sources: the
tomb of the numbers next to the bridge 'daughters of Jacob' which is located
in a military area at the confluence of the Israeli border - the Syrian -
Lebanese, according to some sources there are about 500 grave where to the
martyrs of Palestinians and Lebanese, most of those killed in the 1982 war,
and beyond.

He noted the tomb figures located in the closed military zone between the
city of Jericho and the King Hussein Bridge in the Jordan Valley, surrounded
by a wall, the iron gate suspended above a large banner reading in Hebrew
'cemetery for the victims of the enemy' and where there is more than a
hundred tomb, and holds these graves numbers of '5003 --5 107 '(not known if
these serial numbers of the graves in other cemeteries, or as Israel claims
as mere signs and symbols of management do not reflect the true number of
bodies trapped in the tombs of the other), and the tomb of' Ravidam 'is
located in the Jordan Valley.

He said that the cemetery fourth so-called 'Ahath' is located in the village
of Wadi bathroom northern city of Tiberias, located between Mount Erbil and
Lake Tiberias, the majority of the bodies in which the martyrs fighting the
Jordan Valley between the years 1965 - 1975, pointing out that in the
northern part of the cemetery has about 30 of the shrines in two long rows,
while the spread in the middle of a shrine about 20, and raising the
feelings that these graves is a shallow sandy graves, which exposes them to
erosion, the bodies appear, to become vulnerable to the eroding of stray
dogs and wild beasts.

The head of the Information Center Justice at the Ministry of Justice Majid
Aruri, the brother of the martyr Popular Aruri, which is the first
Palestinian prisoners released from the tombs of the figures in last August
'This is a victory for the efforts made by several parties in the
Palestinian leadership and institutions of the Palestinian National
Authority in cooperation with the National Campaign to recover the bodies by
working for a period of 3 years'.

He said, 'This is an achievement of the efforts undertaken by the Ministry
of Justice in cooperation with all parties concerned in order to
internationalize the issue of Martyrs cemetery, which succeeded to pass a
resolution supporting the campaign at the Arab level and the League of Arab
States on 19.5.2011 and on the dimensions of the legality of the detention.
"

He continued that this is a victory achieved by the human legal political
participation of all Palestinian parties and the tireless efforts of the
Palestinian leadership, so that those with the martyrs to bury their
children and visit their graves.

He pointed out that this effort was the result of organized action and
correctly and collectively, which will enhance the prestige of the
Palestinian National Authority in its efforts for the release of all the
martyrs cemetery.

The following are the names of the martyrs who will receive the power their
bodies:

1 - Abdul Kareem Salama Moussa Trdh - Hebron - Date cited 1/1/1974- place of
martyrdom of Ras Naqoura in southern Lebanon.

2 - Mohamed Magdi Mahmoud Abu Warda - Hebron - Date cited 25/2/1996- place
of martyrdom bus station in Ashkelon.

3 - Ahmed Hassan Ibrahim Sarahneh - Hebron - Date cited 25/2/1996- place of
martyrdom bus station in Ashkelon.

4 - Jawad Fouad Omran Qawasmeh - Hebron - Date cited 17/5/2003- place of
martyrdom Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron.

5 - the name Jamal Darwish Tkrkera - Hebron - Date cited 18/5/2003- place of
martyrdom of Jerusalem.

6 - Mujahid Abdul-Fattah Mustafa Jabari - Hebron - Date cited 18/5/2003-
place of martyrdom of Jerusalem.

7 - Walid Muhammad Abd al-Hijazi Abido - Hebron - Date cited 6/8/2003- place
of martyrdom Tomb of the Patriarchs - Hebron.

8 - Abdullah Abdul Qader Abdullah Qawasmi - Hebron Date of martyrdom -
martyrdom 21/6/2003- place near the Al Ansar mosque in Hebron.

9 - Abdel Muti Mohamed Saleh Mohamed Shabana - Date cited Hebron -
6/11/2003 - a place of martyrdom of Jerusalem.

10 - Salwa Said Salim Fakhoury - Hebron - Date cited 6/8/2003- place of
martyrdom the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron.

11 - Mohammed Ayoub Mohammed Sidr - Hebron - Date cited 14/8/2003- place of
martyrdom of Hebron.

12 - Raed Abdel-Hamid Abdel-Razek Mask - Hebron - Date cited 19/8/2003-
place of martyrdom of Jerusalem.

13 - Izz al-Din Shams al-Din Khidr Mask - Hebron - Date cited 9/9/2003-
place of martyrdom of Hebron.

14 - Shafiq Ahmed Osman Badr - Hebron - Date cited 9/9/2003.

15 - Basil Abdul-Qader Mohammed Shafiq Qawasmeh - Hebron - a place of
martyrdom Hawouz Street in Hebron.

16 - Diab Abdul Rahim Abdul Rahman Shweiki - Hebron - Date cited 25/9/2003-
place of martyrdom of Hebron.

17 - Rafik Mohamad Ziad Aqgne - Hebron - Date cited 22/1/2003- place of
martyrdom of Tel Rumeida - Hebron.

18 - Yusuf Ali Munir Jaara - Hebron - Date cited 29/1/2004- place of
martyrdom of Jerusalem.

19 - Nasim Muhammad Ali Abd al-Ghani Jabbara - Hebron - Date cited -
31/8/2004- place of martyrdom of Beersheba.

20 - Ahmed Abdel Latif Fawzi Abodosh - role Singer - Hebron - Date cited -
16/9/2003.

21 - Abdul-Aziz Abdul-Rahim Ahmad Allahma - Hebron - Date cited -
25/9/2003 - a place of martyrdom of Hebron.

22 - Jihad Muhammad Ismail Suwayta - Hebron - Date cited - 30/1/2004 - a
place of martyrdom of Beit Awa - Hebron.

23 - Mohammad Tawfiq Mohammad Dar Yasin - Bethlehem - Date
cited -22/2/2002 - a place of martyrdom settlement of Efrat.

24 - Mohammed Issa Khalil Azaaol - Bethlehem - Date cited - 22/2/2004 - a
place of martyrdom Bell Park - East Jerusalem.

25 - Hani Malek Ahmed Zakarna - Jenin - Date cited - 1/12/2003- place of
martyrdom settlement Kadish - north of Jenin.

26 - Spring Ahmed Kamel Zakarneh - Jenin - Date cited - 1/12/2003.

27 - Attia Emad Nayef Bani Odeh - Jenin - History of martyrdom - martyrdom
13/3/2003- place near a school Tammun.

28 - Mohamed Radwan Ghazi Mahajneh - Jenin - History of martyrdom -
martyrdom 13/3/2003- place near a school Tammun.

29 - Baker gift Nayef Bani Odeh - Jenin - Date cited - 13/3/2003- Tammun
near the place of martyrdom.

30 - Sami Fathi Mustafa Bisharat - Jenin - History of martyrdom - martyrdom
13/3/2003- place near a school Tammun.

31 - the gift is determined Said Daraghmeh - Jenin - Date cited - 19/5/2003-
place of martyrdom of Afula.

32 - Ahmed Ali Muflih Abahirh - Jenin - Date cited - Nissan 19/6/2003- place
of martyrdom.

33 - Kamel Abdullah Kamel Alawneh - Jenin - Date cited - the place of
martyrdom 26/6/2003- bundle Bank.

34 - Ahmed Fathy Khairy Yahya - Jenin - Date cited - 7/8/2003- place of
martyrdom 'Kfar Aobeits' south of Tel Aviv.

35 - Hanadi Tayseer Abdel Malik Gradarat - Jenin - Date cited 10/4/2003-
Haifa martyrdom place behind the Green Line.

36 - Hassan Ahmed Hassan Abu Zeid - Jenin - Date cited 26/10/2005/- place of
martyrdom of Hadera, behind the Green Line.

37 - Gamal Atallah Ramzi Shaheen - Ramallah - Date cited 11/11 1991 - the
place of martyrdom Negev.

38 - Rafik Anis Shukri Khalil - Ramallah - 11/11/1991 Date of martyrdom - a
place of martyrdom Negev.

39 - Adel Ahmed Ismail Awadallah - Ramallah - Date of citation 9/10/1998 -
cited the good place near the village of Tarqumiya Hebron.

40 - Emad Ahmed Ismail Awadallah - Ramallah - Date of citation 9/10/1998 -
cited the good place near the village of Tarqumiya Hebron.

41 - Ramez Fahmi Ezzeddine Asilym - Ramallah - Date cited 9/9/2003- place of
martyrdom Cafe Hillel Yaffe Jerusalem.

42 - Ehab Abdel-Qadir Mahmoud Abu Slim - Ramallah - Date cited 9/9/2003 - a
place of martyrdom Sarafand the entrance to camp near Tel Aviv.

43 - Mohammed Jamil Hussein Faraj - Tulkarem - Date cited 15/12/2001- good
place of martyrdom City - pantographs Green Line.

44 - Adel Mohamed Ibrahim Haddaadh - Tulkarem - Date cited 6/5/2003 - Atil
town of Tulkarem governorate.

45 - Burhan Hussein Sarhan Sarhan - Tulkarem - Date of citation 4/10/2003 -
a place of martyrdom Tulkarm refugee camp.

46 - Abdullah Said Ibrahim Badran - Tulkarem - Date cited 25/2/2005- place
of martyrdom of Tel Aviv.

47 - Ahmed Sami Ahmed Ahmed Ghawi - Tulkarem - Date cited 7/2/2005- place of
martyrdom city of Netanya.

48 - Ahmed Salman, a gain Alzgarna - Gaza - 05/18/1976 Date of martyrdom.

49 - Zuhair Mahmoud Mahmoud Salem - Gaza - 14/03/2004 Date of martyrdom - a
place of martyrdom port of Ashdod.

50 - Ibrahim Mohamed Ahmed Hammad - Gaza - Date cited 5/2/2004.

51 - Khaled Mohamed Mahmoud Al-Khatib - Gaza - Date cited 4/9/1995 - a place
of martyrdom settlement of Kfar Darom in central Gaza Strip.

52 - Nabil Ibrahim Mohamed Masoud - Gaza - Date cited 14/3/2004- place of
martyrdom Ashdod port behind the Green Line.

53 - Fadi Ahmed Hassan al-Amoudi - Gaza - Date cited 17/42004 - a place of
martyrdom the Beit Hanoun - Ayers.

54 - Nael Mohamed Mahmoud act - Gaza - died on the place of martyrdom
18/4/2004- Kissufim settlement evacuated.

55 - Ahmed Almelvh believer in force - Gaza - 06/24/2004 Date of martyrdom -
a place of martyrdom evacuated a Jewish settlement north of the Gaza Strip.

56 - Bashir Ahmed Hosni Hessi - Gaza - Date cited 24/6/2004- place of
martyrdom Mistoth Dugit in northern Gaza.

57 - Rafik Ibrahim Mohamed Abdel-Hadi - Gaza Date 7/6/2004- place of
martyrdom martyrdom Kissufim settlement.

58 - Ammar Abdul Ghafar Musa Aljdbh - Gaza - died on 7/6/2004 - a place of
martyrdom on the land Kissufim settlement in Gaza.

59 - Mahmoud Mohamed Anis state - Qalqilya - Date of citation 8/31/1980 - a
place of martyrdom Ashkelon prison beyond the Green Line.

60 - Ahmed Attia Ahmed Khamis - Qalqilya - Date cited 22/10/2003- place of
martyrdom of Qalqilya - the community of Kfar Saba.

61 - Yousef Taleb Youssef Agbara - Qalqilya - 09/14/2004 Date of martyrdom -
a place of martyrdom Habla military checkpoint in Qalqilya.

62 - Hafiz Muhammad Hussein Abu Zant - Nablus - 18/05/1976 Date of
martyrdom - a place of martyrdom Jiftlik - the valley.

63 - Zaid Ismail Ahmed Hanani - Nablus - died on 03.06.2003 - a place of
martyrdom settlement of red - the Jordan Valley.

64 - Amin Ali Saad Bisharat - Nablus - 03/16/2003 Date of martyrdom - a
place of martyrdom Tammun.

65 - Abdel-Nasser Mustafa Ahmed Asida - Nablus - 03/18/2003 Date of
martyrdom - a place of martyrdom bouquet firewood Qalqilya.

66 - bloom Ghassan Fawaz Abu circumference - Nablus - 04/30/2003 Date of
martyrdom - a place of martyrdom Alallaya camp east of the settlement of
Elon Moreh.

67 - Mahmoud Amin Mahmoud Mohammed Hanani - Nablus - 04/30/2003 Date of
martyrdom martyrdom place near the settlement of Elon Moreh.

68 - Ahmed Abdel Karim Salim Hamad - Nablus - Date cited 2/5/2003 - a place
of martyrdom of Mount Sinai in Nablus.

69 - Amjad Suleiman Hassan Abu Salim - Nablus - Date cited 18/5/2003-
settlement of the place of martyrdom 'Shaarei Tikva' built on the territory
of Qalqilya.

70 - Shaker Aamer Abdul Latif Abu Ayyash - Nablus - Date cited 18/5/2003-
settlement of the place of martyrdom 'Shaarei Tikva' built on the territory
of Qalqilya.

71 - Hani Ahmed Abdel Fattah Khryosh - Nablus - Date cited 6/6/2003- place
of martyrdom Atil town of Tulkarem governorate.

72 - Khaled Abdel Latif Ahmed Omar Aash - Nablus - Date cited 26/6/2003-
place of martyrdom in the western town of range lands 48.

73 - Mohamed Abdel Rahim Mohamed Radi Hambali - Nablus - Date cited
9/5/2003- place of martyrdom hidden in Nablus.

74 - Ahmed Mustafa Ahmed al-Safadi - Nablus - Date cited 10/9/2003- place of
martyrdom of Tulkarm.

75 - Yusuf Islam Qteishat student - Nablus - Date cited 8/12/2003-
settlement of Ariel.

76 - Khamis Ghazi Jarwan Faisb - Nablus - Date cited 8/12/2003- place of
martyrdom Ras al-Ain in Tel Aviv.

77 - other beautiful Kamal Hanani - Nablus - Date cited 25/12/2003- place of
martyrdom Bridge 'valid' Ramat Gan.

78 - Ramzi Fakhri Abdel-Rahman casual - Nablus - Date cited 4/3/2004-
settlement of the place of martyrdom 'Avni Hefetz'.

79 - Sami Ziad Said safety - Nablus - Date cited 25/5/2004- place of
martyrdom Hamra checkpoint near the settlement of 'Bakaaut'.

80 - Ahmed Hassan Yousef Hanani - Nablus - Date cited 13/8/2004- place of
martyrdom Itamar settlement on the lands of Beit Furik.

81 - Zainab Ali Issa Abu Salem - Nablus - history of the place of martyrdom
martyrdom 22/9/2004- French Hill in Jerusalem.

82 - Amer Abdul Rahim Ahmed Abdullah Ali - Nablus - Date cited 11/1/2004-
place of martyrdom of Tel Aviv.

83 - Lutfi Amin Abdul-Latif Abu Saada - Nablus - Date cited 15/5/2006- place
of martyrdom of Netanya.

84 - Sami Abdel Hafez Hassan Antar - Nablus - Date cited 19/1/2006- place of
martyrdom of Tel Aviv.

B. T, m. J / A. P

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