Lebanon delivers Alwani's body to Baghdad without performing an autopsy

The Lebanese discriminatory public prosecutor, Judge Ahmed Rami Al-Hajj, ordered the body of former Iraqi MP Ahmed Al-Alwani to be handed over to the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, to be transported to Baghdad at the request of his family.

A judicial source explained that as a result of the x-rays conducted yesterday on Alwani’s body, it was revealed that there was an amount of fluids in the lower abdomen and pelvis of the victim, pointing out that the judiciary ordered an autopsy to determine the nature of these fluids and whether they were blood or not, which may indicate that he was beaten and suffered internal bleeding.

However, the Iraqi embassy asked the judiciary to abandon the autopsy and transfer it to Baghdad, so that these procedures could be conducted there, and its request was granted.

The judicial source said that with regard to determining the causes of death, this can be done upon the arrest of persons suspected or accused of the crime, and through their confessions.

The source revealed that two people who sold phone lines to the perpetrators in the New Road area were being investigated, without a decision to arrest or release them yet.

The judicial source also explained that Lebanon has not yet received any answer from the Syrian side regarding the arrest and extradition of the two Syrian suspects who fled into Syria.

Two Palestinians were killed, and others were injured, on Friday, as a result of Israeli artillery shelling in the southern Gaza Strip.

The independent Palestinian news agency Shehab reported, “Two martyrs and more than 10 wounded, most of them children, arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, as a result of occupation artillery shelling that targeted the vicinity of Al-Qastal Towers, east of Deir Al-Balah.”

More than a year after the ceasefire that ended major combat operations in Gaza, the Strip's entire population of more than two million Palestinians lives in about a third of the small enclave, mostly in makeshift tents and demolished buildings.

On Thursday, Doctors Without Borders condemned an Israeli air strike on a hospital in Gaza that killed 6 people, according to the German News Agency.

The organization said it was “shocked and extremely angry” by the attack that occurred during the night, and resulted in the injury of 52 others.

She continued: “It is unconscionable for patients and medical staff to be killed and injured again inside a hospital, which is a place where lives should be saved, not lost.”

Doctors Without Borders said that Nasser Medical Hospital had been subjected to at least 6 air strikes, repeated ground incursions, artillery shelling and gunfire since October 2023.

She added: “Hospitals must remain safe places, where patients can receive treatment, and medical staff can save lives without fear for their lives.”