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Israel
Kills, Steals Organs of Palestinian Children
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| Israel preys
on Palestinian children
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RAMALLAH,
Jan. 14 (IslamOnline & News agencies) – Israeli occupation forces not only
kill Palestinian children but they also mutilate their bodies, and extract vital
organs to use them as “spare parts”, Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat
said in a televised interview Sunday.
Speaking
to Qatari based Al Jazeera Satellite Arafat said that "the pictures that
were shown on Al Jazeera television of the 6 Palestinian boys that Israeli
occupation soldiers killed and mutilated were proof of Israel's crimes against
humanity in every sense of the word."
On
Wednesday, January 9, 2002, the Iranian news agency, IRNA, reported that doctors
at L. Greenberg Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir in south Tel Aviv,
had stolen the vital organs of three Palestinian teenagers killed by the Israeli
occupation army in December 2001.
In
response to a question by Ahmad Tibi, an Arab member of the Israeli Knesset,
Nissim Dahan, the Israeli Minister of Health said that he could not deny that
the Palestinian children killed by the Israeli forces were mutilated and their
vital organs extracted for transplants and scientific research, reported IRNA.
Dahan
said he "couldn't say for sure that something like that
[extracting
the organs] didn't happen."
Tibi
stated that he had evidence that proved that Israeli doctors at Abu Kabir
extracted organs such as the heart, kidneys, and liver from the bodies of
Palestinan
youths and children killed in Gaza and the West Bank.
Israeli
authorities routinely detain the bodies of Palestinians the occupation army
killed for several days without any explanation, IRNA reported.
The
Israeli occupation army killed the three Palestinian teenagers near Khan Younis
December 30, 2001. However, the bodies of the boys were given to Abu Kabir
institute and were not handed over to their families until January 6, 2002.
Palestinian
medical authorities who examined the bodies stated that the main
vital
organs of the boys were missing, IRNA said.
But
this is not the first time the Institute has been involved in the theft of body
parts.
Abu
Kabir has been accused earlier by Israeli Hebrew-language daily newspaper,
Yediot Aharonot for being involved in “organ sales”, Israeli daily
newspaper, Jerusalem Post reported.
In
December 2000, the newspaper stated that the institute, "headed for the
last 13 years by chief pathologist Professor Yehuda Hiss, is involved in 'organ
sales' involving body parts - legs, thighs, ovaries, breasts and testicles -
removed from corpses and transferred to the institutes and for 'practice' by
medical students," reported the Jerusalem Post.
“The
organs removed from the bodies were not returned but replaced by broomsticks,
cotton wool, garden hoses" and other objects to fill out the bodies after
autopsy, the Post quoted Dr. Yitzhak Berlovich, the Israeli Ministry of Health
associate director-general, as saying.
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