Funeral held for remains returned by Israel

 Hundreds of people participated Monday in the funeral of Majdi Abdel Jawad Khanfar, from Silat al-Dahr, near Jenin, whose remains Israel returned to his family late Sunday after holding his body in a numbered grave inside Israel for 12 years. A military funeral procession was held with the participation of the governor of Jenin, Talal Dweikat, along with heads of the security forces and members of the parliament.Khanfar was killed when he was 33 and his body was buried in a cemetery in Israel since then.Israel is supposed to return two more bodies to their families on Tuesday also to be reburied in their hometowns.The remains of Fathi Jihad Amirah from Nablus had been held in Israel since March 2002 after he was killed in suicide operation inside Israel, and Ata Ibrahim Samahne, from Tubas, held since 2004 when he was killed in an Israeli army operation.Israel is supposed to return remains of dozens of Palestinians held in graves identified by numbers only in the coming days after doing DNA tests on them to be able to identify them.