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Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said on Sunday it had “concerns” about possible organ theft from Palestinian corpses, following reports by medical professionals in Gaza who examined some bodies after they were released by Israel.
Medical professionals reportedly found vital organs, such as livers, kidneys and hearts, alongside cochleas and corneas, were missing, which the Euro-Med Monitor called “evidence” of potential organ theft.
They also claimed Israel exhumed and confiscated corpses from a mass grave that was dug more than 10 days ago in a courtyard at al-Shifa.
Israel has previously denied harvesting organs from dead Palestinians without the consent of families, calling such accusations “antisemitic”.
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I’m an organ donor and my understanding is that after I die, there’s a relatively small window of time to harvest any usable organs?
Surely a 10 day old corpse being dug up is completely useless for organ harvesting.
Euro-Mediterranian HRM is run by Ramy Abdu, who wikipedia calls a Palestinian financial expert born in Gaza, and have an HQ in Switzerland. This NCO is explicitly built to talk about Gaza, destroy stereotypes etc. And although I don’t know of their previous campaigns that much, but that one opinions drags them through a mud alright. May as well be a HAMAS project, as ‘financial expert’ from Gaza sounds a little bit fishy. I won’t put that accusation as true, but they aren’t in any sense an independent org as they are completely involved in that conflict. And even if for a good intention to save more Gazans and tell their story, they are now telling us without blinking that organ transplants are possible in unsanitary military contexts, and that’s an obvious propaganda to get likes. And what’s even worse Euronews cites them as a reputable source. There’s no need to overestimate what Israel does do Gaza, fuckers, you only weaponize anti-Gazan propaganda with such claims.
This is another one of those stories (like the “40 beheaded babies!”) that seems awfully suspicious. Please don’t take stories like this at face value.
Organs only remain viable for so many hours after death, so the idea of digging up a mass grave for organs seems sus:
They did this stuff in until at least 1990 and admitted to it though. It doesn’t directly confirm these new allegations but there’s a precedent…
https://www.newsweek.com/israel-organ-harvesting-allegations-explained-1847101
The release of Scheper-Hughes’ recording was in response to an article by Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. The publication featured interviews with Palestinians who alleged that young men from the West Bank and Gaza Strip were being killed by the Israeli military and their bodies returned with organs missing. Its content was condemned by many leaders and journalists across the world.
“Whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family,” Hiss said.
The Israeli military confirmed that organ harvesting took place, but that it ended in the 1990s.
Lol if a corpse is already buried the organs are useless.
Unless they are sending teams of ambulances in directly after bombs kill these people, in order to rush the bodies to a medical facility where they can extract the organs properly, the organs are useless.
This is such bullshit.
Quit muddying the waters Hasbara, that’s not what the article says.
Israel has long been accused of harvesting organs Reports have circulated in recent years that Israel is unlawfully using Palestinian corpses.
In her book Over Their Dead Bodies, Israeli doctor Meira Weiss claimed organs were taken from dead Palestinians between 1996 and 2002 and used in medical research at Israeli universities and transplanted into Israeli patients’ bodies.
Jewish teachings permit organ transplantation and harvesting, with the need to save lives paramount over all other religious commandments.
A controversial Israeli television investigation in 2014 included confessions from high-ranking officials that skin was taken from the bodies of dead Palestinians and African workers to treat Israelis, such as soldiers with burn injuries.
In it, the director of the Israeli Skin Bank revealed the country’s reserve of “human skin” reached 17 square meters - a huge number relative to Israel’s population.
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.
Euro-Med Monitor claimed Israel is one of the "world’s biggest hubs for the illegal trade of human organs under the pretext of ‘security deterrence’”.
It urged the country to abide by “international law” and reiterated the “necessity of respecting and protecting the bodies of the dead during armed conflicts.”
The 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, which Israel has not ratified, requires combatants to respect the dignity of the dead, including preventing despoiling, mutilation, or any disrespectful treatment of their bodies.
Palestinian bodies reportedly being withheld by Israeli forces
Euro-Med also accused Israel of holding the remains of dozens of Palestinians killed during its military operation in Gaza since 7 October, though some have been handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
This is considered by some a punitive practice to deny families the chance of burying their loved ones.
Israel has a long history of holding onto the bodies of dead Palestinians, Euro-Med Monitor said.
So why is israel stealing bodies from a hospital then?
Is it just me or are these stories getting a little bit ‘competitive’ on the worst possible accusations with lessening citations. All I could find on this are 15+yr old articles and Instagram/Tiktok influencers.
The source mentioned in the article is euro med monitor, an NGO human rights watch organisation. I’m not sure they qualify as “TikTok influencers”.
Gonna call shenanigans on this.
Bombs shatter organs - even when the victim isn’t in the blast-radius. Heck, just the sonic booms from fighter-jets can (and do) trigger miscarriages. Organs that are crushed, riddled with shrapnel, and probably close to the consistency of oatmeal are not worth the risks of retrieval.
Not everyone is bombed to rubble. Many corpses would even be in cold storage, or fresh because the IDF has also executed people at point blank.
Since the IDF has a ton of casualties right now it’s not that far fetched that they would steal some human supplies for their own surgeries.
A pinch of salt is recommended but since israel isn’t allowing international journalists into Gaza it’s very difficult to have complete independent verification on any of their accused war crimes.
