Post subject: Israel Admits Organs Harvested Without Permission
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 10:38 pm
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AP - Israel has admitted forensic specialists harvested organs from bodies, including Palestinians, without permission from their families during the 1990s.
The issue emerged with publication of an interview with the then-head of Israel's main forensic institute, Dr. Jehuda Hiss. An American academic conducted the interview in 2000, but decided to release it now because of a controversy last summer over an allegation by a Swedish newspaper that Israel was killing Palestinians to harvest their organs. Israel hotly denied the charge.
In the interview, Hiss says corneas were taken from dead bodies without family consent.
Hiss was dismissed from the institute in 2004, and Israel's Channel 2 TV quoted the health ministry saying that the practice stopped a decade ago.
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health ministry saying that the practice stopped a decade ago.
suuuuuuuuuuuure they did I sooooooooooooooo believe this guy
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Post subject: Re: Israel Admits Organs Harvested Without Permission
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 2:22 am
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Channel 2 TV (one of the biggest Israeli tv channels) reported that in the 1990s, specialists at Abu Kabir harvested skin, corneas, heart valves and bones from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers,However, the vast majority of cases, according to the Israeli Ministry of Health, involved Israeli citizens.. often without permission from relatives.
The Israeli military confirmed to the programme that the practice took place, but added: "This activity ended a decade ago and does not happen any longer." Hiss said: "We started to harvest corneas ... whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family." However, there was no evidence that Israel had killed Palestinians to take their organs, as the Swedish paper reported. "body parts were used by hospitals for transplant purposes - cornea transplants. They were sent to public hospitals [for use on citizens].. and the skin went to a special skin bank, founded by the military, for their uses", such as for burns victims
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