here’s the article that first exposed israel’s illegal organ harvesting to the outside world, and…

here’s the article that first exposed israel’s illegal organ harvesting to the outside world, and…

dayinadream:

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has reported concerns" that the Israeli regime has stolen organs from Palestinian corpses, citing medical professionals who have documented evidence of "possible organ theft by the Israeli military," that includes, "missing cochleas and corneas as well as other vital organs like livers, kidneys, and hearts" from bodies of dead Palestinians returned by the Israeli military to southern Gaza.ALT
Although the Israeli military has returned many of those stolen corpses to the ICRC, dozens remain in Israeli custody. The theft of dead Palestinian bodies has long been an Israeli policy that serves two purposes: transforming the corpses into bargaining chips for political gain and collectively-punishing bereaved Palestinian families by depriving them of the ability to give their loved ones proper burials. The legality of such necroviolent practices has been upheld both by the Israeli government and the Supreme Court.ALT
Reports of Israeli organ theft are not scarce In 2009, The Guardian reported that "Israel has admitted pathologists harvested organs from dead Palestinians, and others, without the consent of their families." (See also: CNN, NBC News, etc).ALT
Euro-Med Monitor cites Over Their Dead Bodies, a book by Israeli doctor Meira Weiss, in which it is revealed that "organs taken from dead Palestinians were utilized in medical research at Israeli universities medical faculties and were transplanted into Jewish-Israeli patients' bodies.ALT
Euro-Med Monitor writes, "Even more concerning are admissions made by Yehuda Hess, the former director of Israel's Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine, about the theft of human tissues, organs and skin from dead Palestinians over a period of time without their relatives knowledge or approval.ALT
People who have brought this issue to light have continually been subjected to harassment and punishment and accused of "blood libel. One example of this is a Montgomery County teacher who has been put on leave over social media posts decrying Israeli necroviolence. The Washington Post reported on this incident and falsely claimed that "there is no evidence of organ harvesting.," despite ample evidence. Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has called for "the creation of an independent international investigation committee into organ theft suspicions.ALT

Via MohammedElKurd

“Our sons are plundered of their organs”

here’s the article that first exposed israel’s illegal organ harvesting to the outside world, and the source of the 2009 israel-aftonbladet controversy

Israel has repeatedly been under fire for its unethical ways of dealing with organs and transplants… .

Half of the kidneys transplanted to Israelis since the beginning of the 2000s have been bought illegally from Turkey, Eastern Europe or Latin America. Israeli health authorities have full knowledge of this business but do nothing to stop it. At a conference in 2003 it was shown that Israel is the only western country with a medical profession that doesn’t condemn the illegal organ trade. The country takes no legal measures against doctors participating in the illegal business – on the contrary, chief medical officers of Israel’s big hospitals are involved in most of the illegal transplants, according to Dagens Nyheter.

In the summer of 1992, Ehud Olmert, then minister of health, tried to address the issue of organ shortage by launching a big campaign aimed at having the Israeli public register for postmortal organ donation… .

While the campaign was running, young Palestinian men started to disappear from villages in the West Bank and Gaza. After five days Israeli soldiers would bring them back dead, with their bodies ripped open.

Talk of the bodies terrified the population of the occupied territories. There were rumors of a dramatic increase of young men disappearing, with ensuing nightly funerals of autopsied bodies.

I was in the area at the time, working on a book. On several occasions I was approached by UN staff concerned about the developments. The persons contacting me said that organ theft definitely occurred but that they were prevented from doing anything about it. On an assignment from a broadcasting network I then travelled around interviewing a great number of Palestininan families in the West Bank and Gaza – meeting parents who told of how their sons had been deprived of organs before being killed.

… continues at Aftonbladet (published 2009)

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