Afrasianet - Subhi Hadidi - The news says that the settler herds dug up the grave of a Palestinian citizen who died recently at the age of 80 and was buried in the vicinity of the village of Al-Assa, south of Jenin, in full view of the Israeli occupation army, under the pretext that the grave is close to the settlement of Sanur, which forced the family of the deceased to transfer the remains to another grave. about the latest levels of barbarism in Israeli settlement policies.
It is true that the history of Zionist violations in historic Palestine has included, and continues to include, this described atrocity, for which history has preserved files of violence against the dead and the corpses, and whose dimensions can indeed expand to include entire policies, colonial, exterministic, settler, and racist at the same time.
It is also true that any encyclopedic record is fair, so how can it recover dozens of examples of the excavation of entire Palestinian cemeteries, and not one or two or three graves, as in the example of the West Bank, where a percentage of convergence was excavated 40% of Palestinian cemeteries, or the Gaza Strip, especially after October 7, 2023, where at least 16 cemeteries were excavated or bulldozed, documented by the New York Times and CNN.
It is no less true that this type of Israeli violations was not limited to the cemeteries of Palestinians, but also included the cemetery of the apples, where the graves of Allied soldiers killed in the First and Second World Wars, of Australian and British nationalities, are not less true.
No less true is the fact documented by the Israeli newspaper "Haaretz", that dozens, if not dozens, if not Hundreds and thousands of dead Israelis are buried in predominantly Palestinian cemeteries, whether as a form of bullying, provocation and direct repression, or for settlement considerations that assume that every inch of the land of Palestine is pure Zionist property.
This is not an ordinary cemetery, because it is adjacent to the Hebron Gate, and its establishment dates back to the beginnings of the Islamic conquest of the city in 636 AD, and it also includes many shrines and the remains of the Companions.
A few years ago, in the 48th of Palestine, a fierce battle had to be fought with the occupation authorities to force the municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa to stop the bulldozing of the ambulance cemetery; the crime was to be carried out on the basis of the occupation's confiscation of the properties of the Supreme Islamic Council starting in 1952.
In the city of Jaffa itself, the occupation confiscated areas of the cemetery of al-Qishla, which dates back to Mamluk periods, as well as the Tasso cemetery, which was sold under false contracts, the cemetery of al-Jamasin, which was bulldozed to expand a Jewish neighborhood, and the cemetery of Sheikh Mounis, on whose ruins a university dormitory was built.
Cameroonian historian and political critic Achille Mbibe has looked in detail, in-depth and field research into the policy of violating the dead and exhuming gravesIn a crucial aspect, among other intertwined aspects, is the exercise of sovereignty by diversifying annihilation.
It is no wonder that he stopped at racism as the main driver of this policy, given that the life of a person subject to racial discrimination necessitates, on a regular basis, a series of exclusions, both in life and in death.
Because the very settlement of Sanur is the same from which Ariel Sharon was forced to withdraw in 2005, and to which Bezalel Smotrich returned boastfully in 2026, the exhumation of the graves of the Palestinian village of Al-Asasa is nothing less than a resumption of this specific type of contemporary Zionism: Post-Death Settlement!
