Jordan 'Receives' Body While Israel Keeps Land
Jordan officially 'received' the body of Abdul Muttalib al-Qaisi, a man Israel alleges killed two of its citizens at a West Bank crossing. The New Arab notes this transfer as a diplomatic act, implying closure. Yet, this transactional exchange of the deceased conveniently omits the bigger picture: the ceaseless siege, the daily indignities, and the suffocating occupation that leads to such
desperate acts in the first place. Israel holds onto hundreds of Palestinian bodies as bargaining chips, a practice Human Rights Watch has condemned as "cruel and unlawful." While a single body's return is framed as an event, the systemic dehumanization under military rule remains the unchallenged baseline. The 'crossing attacker' narrative absolves decades of land theft and collective
punishmentâit's a story told from the occupier's checkpoint, not the occupied's crumbling home.