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Adalah petitions High Court to return bodies of six Arab citizens withheld by Israel

Palestinian legal group Adalah petitions Israel’s High Court to return the bodies of six Arab citizens, challenging the longstanding policy that justified withholding bodies for leverage.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
The High Court of Justice in Jerusalem
FILE PHOTO: Migrants aboard an overcrowded boat are approached by the crew of the migrant search and rescue ship Sea-Watch 5, operated by the German NGO Sea-Watch, during a rescue operation in the Search and Rescue (SAR) zone in the central Mediterranean, off Libya, August 11, 2025.

At least five migrant bodies found on Libya’s Qasr al-Akhyar coast

The bodies were found on Emhamid Al-Sharif shore in the western part of the town by people who reported to the police station.

|ByREUTERS
A RESCUE worker whistles to call his team member (not pictured) as he walks past the collapsed floors, following a massive fire that broke out at the Gul Plaza Shopping Mall, in Karachi, Pakistan, January 21, 2026.

Pakistan fire death toll rises to around 50 after shopping mall blaze

The port city's largest fire in more than a decade broke out late on Saturday and quickly spread through the sprawling Gul Plaza shopping complex.

|ByREUTERS
Red Cross vehicles transport the bodies of deceased hostages who had been held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, after they were handed over by Hamas militants as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Gaza City, October 14, 2025.

Findings transferred by Hamas from Gaza not connected to hostages, PMO confirms

National Center of Forensic Medicine confirm that the findings brought yesterday from Gaza for examination do not belong to Israeli hostages.

|BySAM HALPERN

High Court lets state appeal ruling on terrorists’ remains to broader panel

A three-justice ruling in December prohibited the state from holding onto terrorists’ bodies as a strategy to get Hamas to return both living and dead Israelis.

FEBRUARY 19, 2018ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Israeli soldiers carry the dead body of one of two Palestinians, whom the Israeli military said were shot dead by Israeli troops after they attacked an Israeli soldier, in Tal Rumaida in the West Bank city of Hebron March 24, 2016.

Government asks High Court to redo ruling against holding terrorist bodies

The debate over the application of international law continues.

DECEMBER 18, 2017ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
New court rulings could have ramifications in Israel.

25 Bodies found inside Algerian desert gas plant

Algerian TV reports bodies discovered by state army in facility attacked by Islamists; gvn't says death toll expected to rise.

JANUARY 20, 2013ByREUTERS
Algerian army guards road to gas plant 370