Israel says it repatriated the remains of three Jordanian soldiers, 50 years after they perished in the 1967 Six Day War.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Michal Maayan says the bodies were unearthed by chance by workers in Jerusalem.
“Municipal workers discovered the remains of three Jordanian soldiers near the Sur Baher neighbourhood where a Jordanian army base had been situated,” she tells AFP.
They will be transported to Jordan overland to be “buried with dignity” in their homeland, Maayan says.
Jordan held East Jerusalem — where today Sur Baher is located — until June 1967, when it joined Syria and Egypt in a war against neighboring Israel.
By the end of the Six Day War, Israel seized East Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan, the Golan Heights from Syria and the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt.
In 1980, the Jewish state annexed East Jerusalem in an act never recognized by the international community.
— AFP
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