Judging by what I've read in the papers etc (which I can only assume are more accurate than Israeli / Palestine papers):
Why? Because they want to be one up on the 'enemy' or 'bad guy' that kills their friends and family. I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing was to happen in the other direction should the burial requirements be the same. In my opinion, there is now good side in the Israel-Palestine war. Both of them are just as bad as each other. They'll do whatever they can to be one up on their opponents. Just because one of them did get one up on the other doesn't mean the other doesn't have the desire to do the same to them by any means possible. It's amazing how the country which is considered holiest contains the people with the most unquenchable thirst to hurt another in every possible way.
