Hours after Hussein Asasa’s May 2026 burial near Jenin, his family says settlers forced relatives to exhume and rebury him; the IDF denied ordering the reburial, and the UN condemned the incident as dehumanizing [5]. The strongest sourced location is Asasa/al Asa’asa village near Jenin, with the nearby settlement id...

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In May 2026, an elderly Palestinian man’s burial near Jenin became the subject of international condemnation after his family said Israeli settlers forced relatives to remove his body from a freshly dug grave and bury him elsewhere. Israel’s military denied ordering the reburial and said it sent troops after reports of settler digging, while the UN Human Rights Office condemned the incident as dehumanizing [5][
12].
Hussein Asasa died of natural causes and was buried that evening in the cemetery of Asasa village near Jenin, according to accounts citing his son, Mohammed Asasa [5]. Several reports identify him as 80, while some local reports put his age at 85 [
1][
5][
11]. Mohammed said the burial had been coordinated with Israel’s military and that the necessary permits were in place .
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Hours after Hussein Asasa’s May 2026 burial near Jenin, his family says settlers forced relatives to exhume and rebury him; the IDF denied ordering the reburial, and the UN condemned the incident as dehumanizing [5].
Hours after Hussein Asasa’s May 2026 burial near Jenin, his family says settlers forced relatives to exhume and rebury him; the IDF denied ordering the reburial, and the UN condemned the incident as dehumanizing [5]. The strongest sourced location is Asasa/al Asa’asa village near Jenin, with the nearby settlement identified as Sa Nur/Sanur rather than clearly Tarsala [5][11][14].
Video reporting placed Israeli soldiers at the scene, but Reuters said it verified the footage’s location rather than its date, leaving who ordered the exhumation contested [8][12].
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Soon after the funeral, villagers called the family back to the cemetery because settlers were at the grave and ordering it dug up, Mohammed said [5]. He said the settlers claimed the land was part of a nearby settlement; the family account also said relatives removed the body themselves after being warned that settlers would use a bulldozer if they did not [
5][
8]. The family then reburied Asasa in another cemetery [
5].
Reuters, in a video report carried by MarketScreener, said it verified the location of footage from the scene but not the date; that report said Israeli soldiers were visible in the images [8]. Other reporting said verified video appeared to show people removing what looked like a body from a hillside while Israeli troops walked behind them [
5].
That visual record supports the reporting that soldiers were present, but it does not by itself settle who ordered the exhumation. On that point, the family’s account and the Israeli military’s account differ [5][
8][
12].
The Israeli military said the funeral had been coordinated with it and denied instructing the family to rebury Asasa [5]. It said soldiers were sent to the area after a report of settlers “digging in the area” during a confrontation, and it said soldiers confiscated digging tools from Israeli civilians and stayed at the site to prevent further friction [
5].
In a separate report, Xinhua said the IDF was investigating the incident and quoted the military as condemning “any attempt to act in a way that harms public order, the rule of law, and human dignity and the dignity of the deceased” [12].
The UN Human Rights Office condemned the incident [5]. Reports identified Ajith Sunghay, who heads OHCHR’s office in the occupied Palestinian territory, as describing the exhumation as horrifying and as embodying the dehumanization of Palestinians in the occupied territory [
9][
10]. Other reporting on the UN reaction used the phrase “appalling and emblematic of the dehumanization of Palestinians” [
5][
15].
Some references to the incident have used different place names. The public reports cited here place the burial at Asasa or al-Asa’asa village, south of Jenin, and identify the nearby settlement as Sa-Nur or Sanur [5][
11][
14]. They do not establish Tarsala as the settlement involved. Reuters also reported that it could not reach settlers from nearby Sa-Nur for comment [
5].
Reports described Sa-Nur as a settlement whose re-establishment had been approved by the Israeli government the previous year [4][
14].
The clearest supported conclusion is narrow: Asasa’s family says settlers forced the grave to be opened and the body moved; Israeli soldiers were present in reported footage; the IDF denied ordering the reburial and said it was investigating; and the UN condemned the episode as dehumanizing [5][
8][
12]. Because settlers from Sa-Nur were not reached for comment and the date of the circulated video was not independently verified, the published record does not fully settle every detail of responsibility [
5][
8].
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