Community | December 20, 2009 | 207 comments

Israel admits harvesting Palestinian organs

source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/20/israel-admits-harvesting-palestinian-organs

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Israel has admitted that pathologists harvested organs from dead Palestinians, and others without the consent of their families – a practice that it said ended in the 1990s, it emerged at the weekend.

The admission, by the former head of the country's forensic institute, followed a furious row prompted by a Swedish newspaper reporting that Israel was killing Palestinians in order to use their organs – a charge that Israel denied and called "antisemitic".

The revelation, in a television documentary, is likely to generate anger in the Arab and Muslim world and reinforce sinister stereotypes of Israel and its attitude to Palestinians. Iran's state-run Press TV tonight reported the story, illustrated with photographs of dead or badly injured Palestinians.

Ahmed Tibi, an Israeli Arab MP, said the report incriminated the Israeli army.

The story emerged in an interview with Dr Yehuda Hiss, former head of the Abu Kabir forensic institute near Tel Aviv. The interview was conducted in 2000 by an American academic who released it because of the row between Israel and Sweden over a report in the Stockholm newspaper Aftonbladet.

Channel 2 TV reported that in the 1990s, specialists at Abu Kabir harvested skin, corneas, heart valves and bones from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers, often without permission from relatives.

The Israeli military confirmed to the programme that the practice took place, but added: "This activity ended a decade ago and does not happen any longer."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/12/21/israel.organs/
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207 comments // Israel admits harvesting Palestinian organs

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  • alicynx
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    • calm_incense:

      well, not everyone shares your sentiment - some faiths believe that a person needs to be buried whole and complete in order to reach their ideal endpoint (heaven, nirvana, etc). Other religions require that the body is left to the buzzards. You have no right to tell anyone what to believe or how to practice their faith, just as they have no right to do that to you. Removing something from another person, whether they're alive or dead, without permission is improper and immoral, no matter what cloth you are cut from.

    • 2 years ago
  • ryan8566
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    • ...Earlier this year, police broke up an international ring which arranged for Israelis to receive kidneys from poor Brazilians at a clinic in the South African port city of Durban. But such highprofile successes merely scratch at the surface.

      Countries such as Brazil, India and Moldova — well-known sources of donors — have all banned buying and selling of organs. But this has come at the risk of driving the trade underground.

      Behind the growth in trafficking lies the increasing demand for transplant organs.

      In Europe alone, there are currently 120 000 patients on dialysis treatment and about 40 000 people waiting for a kidney, according to a report last year by the European Parliamentary Assembly.

      It warned that the waiting list for a transplant, currently about three years, would increase to 10 years by 2010, and with it the death rate from the shortage of organs...

      http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/82/9/feature0904/en/index.html

    • 2 years ago
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