Occupation hands over body of martyred child after detaining it since March

Israeli occupation forces handed over the body of the martyred child Salim Sami Fqaha to his family, after detaining his body since his martyrdom last March. The body was received by the General Authority for Civil Affairs at the Ein Sinya checkpoint and transferred to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah. The National Campaign to Recover the Bodies of Martyrs documented the detention of 800 bodies.

On Thursday, August 20, 2026, Israeli occupation forces handed over the body of the martyred child Salim Sami Salim Fqaha to his family, after detaining his body since his martyrdom last March. The General Authority for Civil Affairs received the body at the Ein Sinya checkpoint and transferred it to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah to complete medical procedures before burial. The child Fqaha was martyred on March 17, 2026, by occupation forces' fire on the outskirts of Sinjil village, northeast of Ramallah, and another youth accompanying him was injured. The National Campaign to Recover the Bodies of Martyrs documented the occupation's detention of 800 bodies in numbered graves and morgues, including 256 bodies in numbered graves and 544 bodies since the return of the policy of detaining bodies in 2015. The campaign clarified that among the detained bodies are 99 martyrs from the prisoner movement, 83 children under 18 years old, in addition to 10 female martyrs. The article adopts the language of the Palestinian axis in describing the event without presenting an Israeli narrative.