Israeli settlers force Palestinian family to exhume father’s body in West Bank

Israeli settlers forced a Palestinian family on Friday to exhume their father's body from a cemetery in the occupied West Bank.

The settlers said the grave was too close to the recently re-established settlement of Sa-Nur, near Jenin, located around 300m from the burial site.

This was despite the family of Hussein Asasa reportedly obtaining the necessary Israeli permits to bury him there.

Shortly after the burial, settlers were seen digging at the cemetery, leading to confrontations with Palestinians in the area, according to Haaretz.

The Israeli army said it intervened to confiscate the settlers’ digging equipment.

The family said they were then forced to exhume the body and transfer it to another cemetery under Israeli military presence.