The bodies discovered in a mass grave in the Gaza Strip were not buried by Israeli soldiers but by Palestinians, according to Israel’s embassy in Geneva. “The claim that the [Israel Defense Forces] buried Palestinian bodies is baseless and unfounded,” said an embassy statement released on Tuesday evening. Soldiers only examined the bodies in the grave in search of Israeli hostages, the dignity of the deceased was respected, and the bodies of Palestinians were returned to the same place, it continued. “The examination was conducted in a careful manner and exclusively in places where intelligenc…