[News] Israel Stole Organs from Bodies of Palestinians - Gaza Authorities

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Israel Stole Organs from Bodies of Palestinians - Gaza AuthoritiesDecember
27, 2023
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Gaza authorities have accused Israel of stealing organs from Palestinian
bodies. (Photo: via Eye on Palestine)

*By Palestine Chronicle Staff
<https://www.palestinechronicle.com/writers/palestine-chronicle-staff>*

Gaza authorities accused Israel on Tuesday of stealing organs from the
bodies of Palestinians and called for an international investigation into
it.

In a statement, the government media office in Gaza said that the
examination of bodies revealed that their shapes changed significantly due
to the theft of vital organs from the corpses.

Early on Tuesday, the Israeli authorities released the bodies of dozens of
Palestinians killed by the Israeli army who were detained during its ground
operation.

“The occupation handed over unidentified bodies and refused to specify the
names of these martyrs. It also refused to specify the places from which it
stole them,” the statement said.

The office also criticized “the silent position of the international
organizations operating in Gaza, including the International Committee of
the Red Cross, towards such an awful crime by the (Israeli) occupation.”

The Israeli authorities are yet to comment on the accusations.

On November 24, the Geneva-based organization Euro-Med Monitor called for
the creation of an independent international investigation committee into
organ theft suspicions.

In a statement
<https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/5982/Int%E2%80%99l-committee-must-investigate-Israel%E2%80%99s-holding-of-dead-bodies-in-Gaza%E2%80%8B>
published on its website, the group said that “Euro-Med Monitor has
documented the Israeli army’s confiscation of dozens of dead bodies from
Al-Shifa Medical Complex and the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza
Strip, and others from the vicinity of the so-called ‘safe corridor’ (Salah
al-Din Road) designated for displaced people heading to the central and
southern parts of the Strip.”

Euro-Med Monitor added that the “Israeli army also dug up and confiscated
the bodies from a mass grave that was established more than 10 days ago in
one of the Al-Shifa Medical Complex’s courtyards.”

The statement also noted that “Israel is thought to be the biggest hub for
the illegal global trade in human organs, according to a 2008 investigation
by the American CNN network, which also revealed that Israel participated
in the theft of organs from dead Palestinians for illegal use.”

*(PC, ANADOLU)*


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