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<h2><b>Kawther Salam – Is Israel a State or An Organ Harvesting
Mafia?</b></h2><font size=2>By
<a href="http://palestinethinktank.com/author/kawther-salam/">Kawther
Salam</a> • Dec 22nd, 2009 at 0:36 • <br>
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</font><font size=3>After Israel conceded to committing the crime of
theft of human organs in a program<br>
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
<a href="http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2009/08/23/the-body-snatchers-of-israel">
harvesting of human beings</a>?<br><br>
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?<br><br>
<dl>
<dd>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 …?<br>
<dd>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.<br><br>
</dl>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?<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
<dl>
<dd>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.
<dd>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.”<br><br>
</dl>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.<br><br>
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.” <br><br>
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.”<br><br>
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.<br><br>
<dl>
<dd>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.”<br><br>
</dl>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.”<br><br>
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”.<br><br>
<dl>
<dd>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.<br><br>
</dl>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.<br><br>
<dl>
<dd>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.”<br><br>
</dl>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.<br><br>
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.”<br><br>
<dl>
<dd>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.”<br>
<dd>The criminal IDF spokesman refused to give a comment on the film, and
he asked to change the debate on the subject.<br>
<dd>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.”<br><br>
</dl>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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
<dl>
<dd>The responsible for the theft project is the former IDF officer Arieh
Eldad, who is today a member of the Israeli Knesset.<br><br>
</dl>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.”<br><br>
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?"<br><br>
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