Overview
- The family of Hussein Asasa, 80, exhumed his body near Jenin after settlers confronted mourners Friday, in an incident captured on video that Reuters geolocated to Asasa.
- The Israeli military said it coordinated the funeral, did not order a reburial, and sent troops who confiscated settlers’ digging tools to prevent further clashes.
- Relatives said they had Israeli permits for the grave and removed the body themselves after settlers dug into the plot, threw stones, and threatened to bring a bulldozer.
- The body was reburied in a nearby cemetery, while residents of Sa-Nur and the Samaria Regional Council called the first burial a provocation meant to block the settlement’s growth.
- The UN human rights office condemned the episode as dehumanising, set against Sa-Nur’s recent re-establishment and a sharp rise in settler attacks across the West Bank since 2023.