[News] Israel concedes to committing the crime of theft of human organs

[Anti-Imperialist News]

Kawther Salam – Is Israel a State or An Organ Harvesting Mafia?

By 
<http://palestinethinktank.com/author/kawther-salam/>Kawther 
Salam • Dec 22nd, 2009 at 0:36 •
http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/12/22/kawther-salam-is-israel-a-state-or-an-organ-harvesting-mafia/#

After Israel conceded to committing the crime of 
theft of human organs in a program
which was aired on Israeli TV Channel 2, will the 
Abu Kabir butchery, the so-called “Autopsy 
Institute of Forensic Medicine” in Israel, be now 
named a strategic base for the 
<http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2009/08/23/the-body-snatchers-of-israel>harvesting 
of human beings?

How does the world look at the consequences of 
the organized Israeli organ theft practiced at 
Abu Kabir hospital? Which are the legal 
procedures that can be taken against the perpetrators, often IDF officers?

Did Israel send their organ mafia to serve as IDF 
officers in the West Bank so that they could 
select and hunt Palestinian victims who had 
traits (and organs) corresponding to specific 
criteria, like the color of her skin, eyes and 
?
This would help to explain many seemingly random 
murders by the IDF, of children, of people going 
about their business, people who often had no 
role in resistance and who were not involved in political activity of any kind.

How many innocent Palestinian were murdered by 
the IDF organ mafia? Were they executed for the 
theft of their organs, in order to make millions of gains for the IDF?

The answers to these questions will be more 
objective after reading the report translated 
from Arabic newspapers into English. The Arabic 
report includes excerpts of what was mentioned in 
the report of Channel 2 aired on December 19 2009 in Israel.

Sunday Dec 20 2009, Tel Aviv, The Israeli 
television Channel 2 reported that the organs of 
the dead Palestinians were stolen in hospitals. 
The TV report stated that many corneas and bones 
– long bones – and the skin from the back, were 
extracted from the bodies of Palestinians, 
without the consent of their families.

Despite the denials of the doctors who work in 
the autopsy institute stealing organs, the 
Israeli television showed a tape of length of 57 
minutes which was filmed in the Institute by 
“Judea Hiss” (Yehuda Hiss), the director of Abu 
Kabir Institute, who served as an official 
medical autopsy and judiciary in Israel. Yehuda 
Hiss released the video which shows how doctors 
were extracting the organs of the dead, and what 
was happening in the dark rooms of the Institute of Autopsy.

According to what was seen in the film, since the 
early eighties until the end of 2000, while Hiss 
was in charge of the Institute of Forensic 
Medicine, everything was happening under the 
authority of Hiss and signed under his name. The 
organs of Palestinians and other dead people were 
taken and implanted in the bodies of Jewish patients.

The video showed how Dr. Hiss did not hesitate to 
tell to the doctors working with him to “Take 
from the dead very quickly! Take corneas and 
implant them into the patients in need”. The 
video also showed how Dr. Hiss was himself extracting organs from cadavers.
Hiss was heard in the video saying: “We were 
taking the corneas without taking out the eyes, 
and then we covered the place of the cornea and 
closed the eye. We did that as  scientific research.”

According to the Law of autopsy in Israel, the 
extraction of organs from cadavers without the 
consent of the families of the dead is forbidden, 
but Dr. Yehuda Hiss was not taking the law into his consideration.

Hiss said in the film: “We gave these organs to 
the hospitals in Israel, particularly the Tel 
Hashomer Hospital in Tel Aviv. Because the 
doctors there were my friends, we did not take 
money in exchange for that, but the hospital gave 
us a microscope after 4 years. We also provided 
organs to the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, who 
also gave us a video camera for the internal 
organs of the body in return for the organs which we gave to them.”

According to the Israeli television report, Abu 
Kabir doctors were doing that without the 
knowledge of the families of the deceased. 
According to the statement of a professor at the 
Institute “we were extracting the long bones of 
the dead, and sometimes we took parts of their heart.”

And to return to what was exposed in the TV film, 
the skin of the back was taken from the dead as 
well the cornea, as a treatment for wounded Israel soldiers.

According to Avi Itrg “We were taking the skin 
off the back of the deceased and this was not 
discovered by their families because they were 
not turning the body during the burial, and they 
did not know that we got the skin from the back of their dead relatives.”

In 1986, Israel set up the skin bank. The bank 
suffered from a lack of the skin, but the Abu 
Kabir autopsy institute provided the bank with 
the skin for wounded Israeli soldiers and citizens who suffered burns.”

According to the video tape, Arieh Eldad, a 
squatter in Kfar Adumim, who is a medical doctor 
specializing in plastic surgery and was the chief 
medical officer of the IDF from 1997-2000, and 
who is a member of the Knesset for the National 
Union, said “We had orders not to take the 
consent of the families while taking the organs of the dead”.

Arieh Eldad was born in Tel Aviv in 1950, His 
father, Israel Eldad was one of the leaders of 
the underground group in Lohamei Herut Yisrael or 
Lehi. He is a squatter in the West Bank 
settlement of Kfar Adumim. From 1997-2000 Eldad 
served as chief medical officer in the IDF with a 
rank of brigadier general. From 2000-2003, after 
leaving active military service, Eldad served as 
director of the plastic surgery unit at the 
Hadassah Ein-Kerem Hosptial in Jerusalem.

The Israeli television stated that the complaints 
started in the nineties by members of the 
families whose deceased relatives organs were 
stolen. Dr. Hiss, who denied that the organ theft 
had happened, did not know before denying that 
the video, which he recorded while stealing the 
organs, would find its way to the press.

Yehuda Hiss said that the Israeli army was 
sending them an expert in cosmetic plastic 
surgery (he meant by indirect way Dr. Arieh 
Eldad), and they were allowing them to be interns 
at the Abu Kabir autopsy institute. “These 
doctors were grabbing the skin from the dead for 
transplants into the bodies of wounded soldiers.”

A father of an Israeli officers who was killed, 
said during the Israeli television report that he 
was surprised when he opened the coffin of his 
son, and he saw how the doctors played with the 
body his son: they cut his neck, and pulled his 
eyes, even though he warned them not to touch the body of his son.

An expert from the University of Brooklyn said: 
“I heard about the subject of stealing the 
organs, and when I checked I found that Israel 
removed organs from Palestinians, and implanted 
them into the bodies of Israeli soldiers.” She 
strongly condemned the theft of the Palestinians 
organs, and she wondered how somebody can grab 
the organs from the body of the enemy and implant 
them into the bodies of his own soldiers, without 
the knowledge of their families. This is immoral behavior.”

For its part, the Israeli health ministry 
responded to the film which the Israeli TV showed 
by saying: “All what happened was in accordance with the law.”
The criminal IDF spokesman refused to give a 
comment on the film, and he asked to change the debate on the subject.
The Israeli hospitals have commented on the issue 
by saying “this topic is an old one and there is 
no reason to talk about it now again.”

Dr. Ahmed Al-Tibi, deputy of Knesset chairman, 
head of Arab Bloc for change, confirmed that the 
Abu Kabir institute grabbed skin patches and 
corneas from the bodies of Palestinians for 
Israeli soldiers in the 1990 years, and pointed 
out that the second channel of Israeli television 
presented a report and audio recordings of the 
director of the Forensics Institute at Abu Kabir 
with the facts which had not been published in the past.

These facts confirm that organs from all the 
bodies which were brought to the Institute in the 
nineties were stolen without the consent of the 
family, whether they belonged to a Jew or to a 
Palestinian. Al-Tibi added that skin patches were 
taken into the skin bank of the hospital and 
transferred to the soldiers who were subjected to 
injuries or burns, and also that corneas also 
taken from the eyes of the deceased.

The responsible for the theft project is the 
former IDF officer Arieh Eldad, who is today a member of the Israeli Knesset.

British professor Nancy Schaefer Dios, who met 
the director of Abu Kabir 10 years ago and 
recorded a talk with him about these facts, said: 
“It is true that corneas and skin were taken from 
the bodies of Palestinians and Israelis, but 
taking the skin from the Palestinian bodies to 
transfer it to the enemy soldiers, this is moral decline.”

She added: “you can take skin from the Israelis 
to Israelis, but with the consent of the family, 
but how is taking organs from Palestinians for 
the benefit of Israeli soldiers understandable?"




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