ZIONIST CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY: Israel Admits Stealing Palestinian Organs. Abu Akbar institute harvested appendages and corneas from bodies of slain Palestinians in the 1990s. --Teibi said he had received credible evidence proving that Israeli doctors at the forensic institute of Abu Akbar extracted such vital organs as the heart, kidneys and liver from the bodies of Palestinian youth and children killed by the Israeli army in Gaza and the West Bank. ■ OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (December 21, 2009) — For the first time, Israel has tacitly admitted stealing Palestinian body parts for transplant in Jewish patients, vindicating accusations leveled by Palestinians and rights groups over the past years. “We started to harvest corneas…whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family,” pathologist Yehuda Hiss, the former head of the Abu Akbar Center, also known as the L. Greenberg Institute for Forensic Medicine, told Nancy Sheppard-Hughes, now a professor of Anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley, in a documentary aired by the Israeli Channel Two. ■ Hiss said his doctors often sought to mask the removal of corneas from bodies. “We’d glue the eyelid shut. We wouldn’t take corneas from families we knew would open the eyelids.” Other body parts believed to have been harvested from deceased Palestinians and others included heart arteries, bones and corneal tissues. “The skins were taken from the bodies and transmitted to Hadasah hospital in West Jerusalem on the request of the Israeli army to be transplanted to wounded soldiers and in case of disaster,” said Hiss. ■ The Israeli military confirmed to the Channel Two documentary that the practice of harvest Palestinian organs took place in the 1990ss. and claimed that, “This activity ended a decade ago and does not happen any longer.” Palestinians insist that the Israeli army has continued to harvest Palestinian organs for transplant or for sale in the black market. Earlier this year, relatives of several Palestinians killed by the Israeli army during Al-Aqsa uprising told IOL that their beloved ones were returned to them shortly after they were killed without their vital organs and with a huge cut from the stomach to the neck stitched up. ■ Back in January, 2002, then Israeli Health Minister Nessim Dahan said in response to a question by Teibi that he couldn’t deny or confirm that organs of Palestinian youths and children killed by the Israeli army were taken out for transplants or scientific research. “I couldn’t say for sure that something like that didn’t happen.” If such is what they are willing to admit, imagine how much they are concealing, ■ Teibi was the first to raise questions about the issue of Palestinian organ harvesting by Israeli doctors. Teibi says the latest revelations underscored the “inherent racism plaguing the Israeli Jewish society.” * Khalid Amayreh a journalist based in the Occupied Palestinian town of Dura. He obtained his MA in journalism from the University of Southern Illinois in 1983. sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2009/12/21/israel-admits-stealing-palestinian-organs/ (Credit, link- Laurie J Adkins)
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