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Sunday, August 10, 2014
ZAKA requests UN permission to retrieve remains in Gaza
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe ZAKA: International Rescue and Recovery organization has penned a letter to UN envoy Robert Serry asking for permission to enter Gaza to retrieve the remains of IDF soldiers Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin.
“Given our decades of experience as a UN-recognized international humanitarian volunteer organization in recovering human remains of disaster victims, we turn to you, as the UN Representative in the Middle East, to help facilitate the return of the soldiers’ body parts,” it writes.
In the letter, ZAKA asks the UN to coordinate its entry into the Gaza Strip to collect their remains for a Jewish burial.
Last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the Red Cross for assistance in locating the bodies and returning them to their families for burial.
The Times of Israel Community.