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  Surgeon Warns: Condition of Palestinian Bodies Returned by Israel
  Highly Indicates “Organ Harvesting”

Editing Team
November 9, 2025
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Gaza (QNN)- Palestinians’ bodies recently returned by Israel appear 
“highly indicative of organ harvesting,” according to a 
British-Palestinian surgeon, with Health officials confirming that the 
bodies also showed signs of severe torture.

Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah told Al Jazeera he was “sent photographs of the 
bodies that were received by the Palestinian Ministry of Health from the 
Israeli army.”

“The bodies show clearly surgically removed lungs, heart, kidneys and 
liver – done in a professional, surgical way, using sharp bone saws, 
causing zero damage to surrounding tissues,” he said.

“These bodies also had liquid nitrogen burns on their skin, but no other 
injuries. It’s unlikely the organs were retrieved post-mortem. All of 
these bodies belonged to Palestinians whose families said they had been 
imprisoned alive. So all of this is highly indicative of organ harvesting.”

Abu Sittah noted that “every organ was removed as if ready for transplant.”

Abu Sittah said the photographs were taken on October 17, shortly after 
Israel handed over 120 bodies.

*What We Know So Far*

Abu Sittah’s comments support reports by the Gaza Government Media 
Office director, Ismail al-Thawabta, who also reported that Israeli 
forces stole organs from Palestinian corpses and called for an immediate 
international investigation.

As part of the Gaza ceasefire deal which took effect on October 10, 300 
Palestinian bodies have been released by Israel over the past weeks. The 
bodies showed clear signs of torture and abuse.

Dozens of the freed bodies also remain unidentified.

According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, the bodies showed 
“conclusive evidence of field executions and brutal torture”.

/*It said the bodies showed signs of:*/

  * Hanging and rope marks on the necks of several bodies
  * Direct gunfire at close range, “confirming deliberate field executions”
  * Hands and feet being bound with plastic restraints
  * Eyes being blindfolded
  * Being crushed under Israeli tank tracks
  * Fractures, burns and deep wounds, indicating “severe physical torture”

“We call for the urgent establishment of an independent international 
commission of inquiry to investigate these heinous crimes and to hold 
Israeli leaders accountable for the war crimes committed against our 
people in the Gaza Strip,” the Office said.

Dr. Ismail Al-Thawabta said Israeli occupation forces stole organs from 
the bodies of Palestinian detainees.

He said dozens of bodies were found mutilated and missing vital parts, 
including eyes, limbs, and internal organs.

“When we examined the bodies, we found that large parts were missing, 
there were half bodies, bodies without heads, without limbs, without 
eyes, and without internal organs.”

Mohammed Zaqout, director of hospitals in Gaza’s Health Ministry, spoke 
about the “clear signs of torture” found on the bodies.

“One body shows signs of hanging with a rope still wrapped around the 
neck, blindfolds around the eyes and bound hands. That martyr was placed 
as is and sent to us,” Zaqout said.

Israeli occupation authorities have been accused of torturing 
Palestinian detainees. This includes being handcuffed and shackled 24 
hours a day, seven days a week – even while sleeping, eating, and using 
the restroom.

Testimonies also describe regular beatings by guards, extreme 
overcrowding, humiliation, and inadequate hygiene.

An Israeli reserve soldier exposed lately shocking abuses at Israel’s 
infamous Sde Teiman military base, describing it as a “sadistic torture 
site” where dozens of Palestinian detainees from Gaza died under brutal 
conditions.

The soldier described Sde Teiman as a place where “people enter alive 
and leave in body bags.” He said the death of detainees was no longer 
surprising. “The real surprise,” he added, “is if someone survives.”

He stated that Israeli occupation authorities oversee systematic abuse.

According to his account, Palestinian detainees suffered starvation, 
untreated war wounds, and denial of basic hygiene needs.

“Some urinated and defecated on themselves because they weren’t allowed 
to use the bathroom,” he said.

In August 2024, the Israeli rights group B’Tselem accused Israeli 
occupation authorities of systematically abusing Palestinians in 
“torture camps”, subjecting them to severe violence and sexual assault.

Its report, titled “Welcome to Hell”, is based on 55 testimonies from 
former detainees from the Gaza Strip, the occupied West Bank, East 
Jerusalem, and citizens of Israel. The overwhelming majority of these 
detainees were held without trial.

According to the Palestine Center for Prisoners Studies, more than half 
of the Palestinian prisoners who have died since October 2023, when 
Israel launched its genocidal war in Gaza, were killed primarily as a 
result of torture and abuse.

Due to the sharp rise in arrests, particularly among Gazans, Israel has 
opened new detention and interrogation centers operated directly by its 
military. According to the center, these facilities have become sites of 
“systematic torture and mistreatment, in clear violation of 
international law and human rights.”

*Recently-released Palestinians: What They Say?*

The freed Palestinians said they were beaten and humiliated, describing 
the Israeli prisons they were held in as “slaughterhouses”.

Al Jazeera correspondent Ibrahim al-Khalili’s brother, Mohammed, who was 
held for more than 19 months without charge, described his ordeal as a 
“big struggle”.

“We were beaten and humiliated. We suffered a lot. But thank God, it’s 
all over now,” al-Khalili said.

Abdallah Abu Rafe described his release as a “great feeling”.

“We were in a slaughterhouse, not a prison. Unfortunately, we were in a 
slaughterhouse called the Ofer prison. Many young men are still there. 
The situation in the Israeli prisons is very difficult. There are no 
mattresses. They always take the mattresses away. The food situation is 
difficult. Things are difficult there,” he said.

Another released detainee, Yasin Abu Amra, described conditions in 
Israeli jails as “very, very bad”.

“In terms of the food, the oppression, and the beatings, everything was 
bad. There was no food or drink. I hadn’t eaten for four days. They gave 
me two sweets here, and I ate them,” he said.

Saed Shubair, who was also freed recently, said he did not know how to 
describe his feelings.

“The feeling is indescribable,” he said.

“Seeing the sun without bars is an indescribable feeling. My hands are 
free from the handcuffs. Freedom is priceless.”

“It’s an indescribable feeling, a new birth,” said Mahdi Ramadan, 
flanked by his parents after his release from prison.

Palestinian journalist prisoner Shadi Abu Seed gave a harrowing account 
of life inside an Israeli prison after his release.

“I went hungry for the past two years. I swear to God, they didn’t feed 
us. They kept us naked. They beat us while we were naked day and night. 
We were tortured,” Abu Seed said.

“Until our last day in Israeli prison, they cut us and hit us and abused 
us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.”

“We couldn’t even sleep. They threatened us with our children. They told 
me they killed my children. They told us that Gaza was destroyed. I 
arrived here and found that everything was gone. It looked like the end 
of the world. Everything is different.”

“He’s been locked up for 24 years,” said a relative of Saber Masalma, 
who was arrested in 2002 and sentenced to life in prison.

“He looks like a dead body. But we will bring him back to life,” he said.

According to Palestinian prisoner advocacy groups, every time prisoners 
are released, the prisoners’ bodies reflect the level of crimes 
committed against them, including torture that is “unprecedented” in its 
level after October 7, “starvation crimes, systematic medical crimes, 
and the infection of a number of them with scabies, in addition to the 
severe beatings that the prisoners were subjected to before their release.”

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