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Israel admits harvesting organs of dead Palestinians
Published: 22 December, 2009, 10:09
Edited: 28 October, 2010, 19:34
Demonstrators protest outside the Swedish embassy in Tel Aviv against the Swedish government's refusal to condemn articles in the afternoon tabloid Aftonbladet claiming that Israeli soldiers had trafficked the organs of dead Palestinians (AFP Photo / Jack Guez)
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Israel has admitted to unlawfully taking organs from dead people, including Palestinians, in the 1990s without the prior permission of the families of the donors.
The revelation comes in a newly-released interview by the former head of the country's Forensic Institute, given in 2000, and has been confirmed by the Health Ministry of Israel.
The ministry says that, in the 1990s, all the organs were used for medical purposes and came from many different ethnic groups.
 Demonstrators holds placards reading: "Anti-Semitism under the cover of freedom of expression," during a protest outside the Swedish embassy in Tel Aviv (AFP Photo / Jack Guez) |
It follows a report by a Swedish newspaper on different allegations which claimed young Palestinians had disappeared – only to be returned by the Israelis with their bodies ripped open.
The initial investigation was flatly denied by Israel and branded anti-Semitic.
“I have a computer list containing 133 Palestinians murdered by Israelis without trial,” says Swedish journalist Donald Bostrom, “And out of those there were 59 taken to Israel against international law and the autopsies performed on them against international law.”
While Donald Bostrom says further investigation is necessary, Raanan Gissin, a former adviser to Ariel Sharon in 2001-2006, says the reports have gone completely over the top.
He says that, even though Israel is one of the leading countries in organ transplant, the facts should be separated from the myths.
“This sounds very strange,” Gissin says “In order to harvest organs here in Israel you have to have the consent of the family or the donor. I think in the nineties, when things were not regulated, there may have been cases, since there was no law.”
22.12.2009, 09:52
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Thank you RT for bringing this information to us. This is true journalism. You're covering the truly important global issues while the main stream media in the US is busy turning non-stories into national debates.
john, what your grand fathers told you about young villagers’ disappearing when shopping in town around Jewish shops is nothing but fairytale and provocation. I live in Israel and I see every day that when jewish citizens meet arabs - in buses, in shops, in streets, in malls, etc., jews treat palestinian visitors with more respect and willingness to help than each other. So I just can't even imagine the situation of kidnapping young palestinian in a jewish shop. :) The only reason for young villagers to disappear when they visit Jewish quarters is their own will. For example, some of these young palestinians may be gays that are afraid of being killed by their own family and don't want to come back to the village...
At first, I thought this was a joke, but it clearly wasn't. This story reminds me of movies like "Night Of The Living Dead" or "Land Of The Dead" etc. etc... jim, you're asking for too much. If international laws are meaningless, your moral law is worth what?