Israel has admitted that in the 1990s, its forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinians, without permission of their families. The issue emerged with publication of an interview with the then-head of Israel's Abu Kabir forensic institute, Dr. Jehuda Hiss. The interview was conducted in 2000 by an American academic, who released it because of a huge controversy last summer over an allegation by a Swedish newspaper that Israel was killing Palestinians in order to harvest their organs. Israel hotly denied the charge. Parts of the interview were broadcast on Israel's Channel 2 TV over the weekend. In it, Hiss said, "We started to harvest corneas ... Whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family." The Channel 2 report said that in the 1990s, forensic 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. In a response to the TV report, the Israeli military confirmed that the practice took place. "This activity ended a decade ago and does not happen any longer," the military said in a statement quoted by Channel 2.
The issue emerged with publication of an interview with the then-head of Israel's Abu Kabir forensic institute, Dr. Jehuda Hiss. The interview was conducted in 2000 by an American academic, who released it because of a huge controversy last summer over an allegation by a Swedish newspaper that Israel was killing Palestinians in order to harvest their organs. Israel hotly denied the charge.
Parts of the interview were broadcast on Israel's Channel 2 TV over the weekend. In it, Hiss said, "We started to harvest corneas ... Whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family."
The Channel 2 report said that in the 1990s, forensic 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.
In a response to the TV report, the Israeli military confirmed that the practice took place. "This activity ended a decade ago and does not happen any longer," the military said in a statement quoted by Channel 2.
fool me once ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
You will have to remove at least one of those qualifiers.
"may" referred to whether the AP story itself was credible. But after rereading it, I see no reason to doubt it, so I can drop that qualifier.
"partly" refers to the fact that there is nothing to suggest that they were actually killing Palestinians for the organs (and nothing to suggest that they were singling out Palestinians[...]).
I just reread the Aftonbladet article, and it did not make these claims.
"Our sons are plundered of their organs" - English translation of the article by Donald Boström | Kultur | Aftonbladet
Palestinians accuse the Israel Defense Forces of taking organs from their victims.Donald Boström writes about an international organ trafficking scandal - and about the time he saw the cut-up dead body of a nineteen-year old Palestinian.
We had some discussion on it in august:
European Tribune - SCF: Sweden-Israel kink that became a crisis
This last week a minor crisis has emerged in the relations between Sweden and Israel. It started with an article in the evening paper Aftonbladet about suspected organ harvesting from Palestinian prisoners in Israel. A bit of to and fro ensued with the Israeli government demanding condemnations the Swedish government would not supply.
This last week a minor crisis has emerged in the relations between Sweden and Israel.
It started with an article in the evening paper Aftonbladet about suspected organ harvesting from Palestinian prisoners in Israel. A bit of to and fro ensued with the Israeli government demanding condemnations the Swedish government would not supply.
The relatives of the dead Palestinians no longer harbored any doubts as to the reasons for the killings,
