Το Ισραήλ παραδέχθηκε ότι τη δεκαετία του 1990, παθολόγοι ιατροδικαστές του έπαιρναν όργανα από νεκρούς Παλαιστίνιους, για μεταμοσχεύσεις, χωρίς να πάρουν άδεια από τις οικογένειές τους.
Το ζήτημα προέκυψε με τη δημοσίευση μιας συνέντευξης του Δρ Jehuda Hiss, που ήταν επικεφαλής του ιατροδικαστικού ιδρύματος Abu Kabir του Ισραήλ. Η συνέντευξη έγινε το 2000 από τον Αμερικανό ακαδημαϊκό Nancy Scheper-Hughes. Δημοσιεύτηκε με αφορμή την έντονη αντιπαράθεση το περασμένο καλοκαίρι του Ισραήλ με τη Σουηδία, για το δημοσίευμα Σουηδικής εφημερίδας σύμφωνα με το οποίο, το Ισραήλ σκότωνε Παλαιστινίους για να πάρει τα όργανά τους, Το Ισραήλ διέψευσε αυτή την κατηγορία. Απόσπασμα της συνέντευξης του Δρ Jehuda Hiss από τον Αμερικανό Ανθρωπολόγο Nancy Scheper-Hughes προβλήθηκε στην τηλεόραση Channel 2 TV του Ισραήλ, αυτό το Σαββατοκύριακο. Ο Δρ Jehuda Hiss είπε «αρχίσαμε να παίρνουμε τους κερατοειδείς χιτώνες από τα μάτια των νεκρών, η διαδικασία ήταν εξαιρετικά άτυπη, δεν ζητήθηκε άδεια από καμιά οικογένεια. Η αναφορά του Channel 2 αποκαλύπτει ότι στη δεκαετία του 1990 ,ιατροδικαστές στο Abu Kabir έπαιρναν δέρμα,-για μεταμόσχευση δέρματος σε εγκαύματα- κερατοειδείς χιτώνες, καρδιακές βαλβίδες και κόκαλα από τα νεκρά σώματα Ισραηλινών στρατιωτών και πολιτών, Παλαιστινίων και αλλοδαπών εργατών, χωρίς την άδεια συγγενικών τους προσώπων.
Ο Ισραηλινός στρατιωτικός Dr Hiss, διαβεβαίωσε ότι αυτή η πρακτική πραγματοποιήθηκε. Η παράνομη δραστηριότητα έληξε πριν από μια δεκαετία και δεν γίνεται πλέον, δήλωσε ο Δρ Jehuda Hiss στο Channel 2 , κατά τη διάρκεια της συνέντευξης, ο Dr Hiss περίγραψε πως οι γιατροί του κάλυπταν την εξαγωγή των κερατοειδών χιτώνων από τα πτώματα. κλείναμε ερμητικά τα βλέφαρα, είπε, δεν βγάζαμε τους κερατοειδείς χιτώνες εάν οι οικογένειες τους μπορεί να τους άνοιγαν τα βλέφαρα.
Ο Scheper-Hughes, καθηγητής Ανθρωπολογίας στο Πανεπιστήμιο της Καλιφορνίας στο Μπέρκλεϊ, δημοσιοποίησε τη συνέντευξη λόγω της διαμάχης το περασμένο καλοκαίρι του Ισραήλ με την σουηδική εφημερίδα Aftonbladet που προκάλεσε διπλωματικό επεισόδιο ανάμεσα στο Ισραήλ και τη Σουηδία.
Israel admits organ harvesting
Israel has admitted that in the 1990s, its forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinians, without permission of their families.
The issue emerged with publication of an interview with the then-head of Israel's Abu Kabir forensic institute, Dr Jehuda Hiss.
The interview was conducted in 2000 by an American academic, who released it because of a huge controversy last summer over an allegation by a Swedish newspaper that Israel was killing Palestinians in order to harvest their organs. Israel hotly denied the charge.
Parts of the interview were broadcast on Israel's Channel 2 TV over the weekend. In it, Dr Hiss said, "We started to harvest corneas ... Whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family."
The Channel 2 report said that in the 1990s, forensic specialists at Abu Kabir harvested skin, corneas, heart valves and bones from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers, often without permission from relatives.
In a response to the TV report, the Israeli military confirmed that the practice took place. "This activity ended a decade ago and does not happen any longer," the military said in a statement quoted by Channel 2.
In the interview, Dr Hiss described how his doctors would mask the removal of corneas from bodies. "We'd glue the eyelid shut," he said. "We wouldn't take corneas from families we knew would open the eyelids."
Many of the details in the interview first came to light in 2004, when Dr Hiss was dismissed as head of the forensic institute because of irregularities over use of organs there. Israel's attorney general dropped criminal charges against him, and Dr Hiss still works as chief pathologist at the institute. He had no comment on the TV report.
Hiss became director of the institute in 1988. He said in the interview that the practice of harvesting organs without permission began in the "early 1990s." However, he also said that military surgeons removed a thin layer of skin from bodies as early as 1987 to treat burn victims. Dr Hiss said he believed that was done with family consent. The harvesting ended in 2000, he said.
Complaints against the institute, where autopsies of dead bodies are performed, at the time of Hiss' dismissal came from relatives of Israeli soldiers and civilians as well as Palestinians. The bodies belonged to people who died from various causes, including diseases, accidents and Israeli-Palestinian violence, but there has been no evidence to back up the claim in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet that Israeli soldiers killed Palestinians for their organs. Angry Israeli officials called the report "anti-Semitic."
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, a professor of anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley, said she decided to make the interview public in the wake of the Aftonbladet controversy, which raised diplomatic tensions between Israel and Sweden and prompted Sweden's foreign minister to call off a visit to the Jewish state.
Ms Scheper-Hughes said that while Palestinians were "by a long shot" not the only ones affected by the practice in the 1990s, she felt the interview must be made public now because "the symbolism, you know, of taking skin of the population considered to be the enemy, (is) something, just in terms of its symbolic weight, that has to be reconsidered."
While insisting that all organ harvesting was done with permission, Israel's Health Ministry told Channel 2, "The guidelines at that time were not clear." It added, "For the last 10 years, Abu Kabir has been working according to ethics and Jewish law."
πηγή: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/1221/breaking7.html
Last Updated: Monday, December 21, 2009, 06:30
Ελευθεροτυπία, Πέμπτη 20 Αυγούστου 2009
Ισραηλινοί στρατιώτες αφαιρούσαν όργανα από Παλαιστίνιους για μεταμοσχεύσεις
Parts of the interview were broadcast on Israel's Channel 2 TV over the weekend. In it, Dr Hiss said, "We started to harvest corneas ... Whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family."
The Channel 2 report said that in the 1990s, forensic specialists at Abu Kabir harvested skin, corneas, heart valves and bones from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers, often without permission from relatives.
In a response to the TV report, the Israeli military confirmed that the practice took place. "This activity ended a decade ago and does not happen any longer," the military said in a statement quoted by Channel 2.
In the interview, Dr Hiss described how his doctors would mask the removal of corneas from bodies. "We'd glue the eyelid shut," he said. "We wouldn't take corneas from families we knew would open the eyelids."
Many of the details in the interview first came to light in 2004, when Dr Hiss was dismissed as head of the forensic institute because of irregularities over use of organs there. Israel's attorney general dropped criminal charges against him, and Dr Hiss still works as chief pathologist at the institute. He had no comment on the TV report.
Hiss became director of the institute in 1988. He said in the interview that the practice of harvesting organs without permission began in the "early 1990s." However, he also said that military surgeons removed a thin layer of skin from bodies as early as 1987 to treat burn victims. Dr Hiss said he believed that was done with family consent. The harvesting ended in 2000, he said.
Complaints against the institute, where autopsies of dead bodies are performed, at the time of Hiss' dismissal came from relatives of Israeli soldiers and civilians as well as Palestinians. The bodies belonged to people who died from various causes, including diseases, accidents and Israeli-Palestinian violence, but there has been no evidence to back up the claim in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet that Israeli soldiers killed Palestinians for their organs. Angry Israeli officials called the report "anti-Semitic."
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, a professor of anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley, said she decided to make the interview public in the wake of the Aftonbladet controversy, which raised diplomatic tensions between Israel and Sweden and prompted Sweden's foreign minister to call off a visit to the Jewish state.
Ms Scheper-Hughes said that while Palestinians were "by a long shot" not the only ones affected by the practice in the 1990s, she felt the interview must be made public now because "the symbolism, you know, of taking skin of the population considered to be the enemy, (is) something, just in terms of its symbolic weight, that has to be reconsidered."
While insisting that all organ harvesting was done with permission, Israel's Health Ministry told Channel 2, "The guidelines at that time were not clear." It added, "For the last 10 years, Abu Kabir has been working according to ethics and Jewish law."
πηγή: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/1221/breaking7.html
Last Updated: Monday, December 21, 2009, 06:30
Ελευθεροτυπία, Πέμπτη 20 Αυγούστου 2009
Ισραηλινοί στρατιώτες αφαιρούσαν όργανα από Παλαιστίνιους για μεταμοσχεύσεις
Κυβερνητικά στελέχη σε Ισραήλ και Σουηδία αντέδρασαν με οργή χθες μπροστά σε δημοσίευμα σουηδικής εφημερίδας, σύμφωνα με το οποίο Ισραηλινοί στρατιώτες σκότωσαν Παλαιστίνιους για να αφαιρέσουν τα όργανά τους, ώστε να χρησιμοποιηθούν σε μεταμοσχεύσεις.Στο ρεπορτάζ που δημοσίευσε την περασμένη Δευτέρα η «Aftonbladet», η μεγαλύτερης κυκλοφορίας καθημερινή εφημερίδα στη χώρα, εκφράζονται επίσης υπόνοιες σύνδεσης αυτών των κατηγοριών και της πρόσφατης σύλληψης ενός Αμερικανοεβραίου στο Νιου Τζέρσεϊ των ΗΠΑ ως μέλος κυκλώματος παράνομης εμπορίας ανθρώπινων οργάνων. Ηταν άμεση η αντίδραση στο δημοσίευμα. Ο εκπρόσωπος του ισραηλινού υπουργείου εξωτερικών Γιγκάλ Παλμόρ, χωρίς να αναφέρει εάν επρόκειτο η κυβέρνησή του να προβεί σε επίσημο διάβημα διαμαρτυρίας, σχολίασε ότι το δημοσίευμα «είναι απροκάλυπτα ρατσιστικό και μπορεί να προτρέψει σε εγκλήματα μίσους με τέτοιο τρόπο που πιστεύουμε ότι οι αρχές θα πρέπει να λάβουν μέτρα». Από την πλευρά της η σουηδική πρεσβεία στο Τελ Αβίβ αναφέρει σε γραπτή ανακοίνωση ότι τα δημοσιευθέντα ήταν «τόσο σοκαριστικά και φοβερά για μας τους Σουηδούς όσο και για τους Ισραηλινούς πολίτες». Ο Ντόναλντ Μπόστρομ, συντάκτης του δημοσιεύματος, σε συνέντευξή του στην ισραηλινή εφημερίδα «Haaretz» επισήμανε ότι έγραψε το ρεπορτάζ με σκοπό να υπάρξει διεθνής έρευνα για τις συγκεκριμένες καταγγελίες που του παρείχαν Παλαιστίνιοι στη Δυτική Οχθη και τη Γάζα. Οι καταγγελίες αφορούσαν συλλήψεις νεαρών Παλαιστινίων από τον ισραηλινό στρατό και έπειτα από λίγες μέρες οι συλληφθέντες επιστρέφονταν πίσω στους δικούς τους νεκροί, με το θώρακα ανοιγμένο και ξαναρραμένο όπως σε συνήθη νεκροψία, όμως με τα ζωτικά τους όργανα να λείπουν. Οι προϊστάμενοί του δήλωσαν ότι στηρίζουν επίσης το αίτημα για διεθνή έρευνα.
(Πηγές: Associated Press, Ma'an News Agency, Haaretz).
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Israeli military admits harvesting organs
Dr. Jehuda HissThe Israeli military has admitted harvesting organs from dead Palestinians after an interview conducted over the issue in 2000 was broadcast again.
Over the weekend, Israel's Channel 2 TV broadcast an interview conducted in 2000 with the then-head of Israel's Abu Kabir forensic institute, Dr. Jehuda Hiss who revealed that forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinian corpses in the 1990s, the Associated Press reported.
"We started to harvest corneas ... Whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family," said the doctor.
According to the report, the forensic specialists harvested skin, corneas, heart valves and bones from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers, often without seeking permission from relatives.
Hiss also described how his doctors would cover up the removal of corneas from bodies.
"We'd glue the eyelid shut," he said, adding that "We wouldn't take corneas from families we knew would open the eyelids."
In response to the broadcast, the Israeli military confirmed the report in a statement but said, "This activity ended a decade ago and does not happen any longer."
The report was released after an article by Swedish journalist Donald Bostrom, accusing Israel of killing Palestinians in order to harvest their organs, caused a huge controversy.
The article, entitled They plunder the organs of our sons, published by the Swedish daily Aftonbladet, sparked outrage among Israeli officials, who called it "groundless," "outrageous" and "anti-Semitic."
Bostrom, however, said the purpose of his opinion article was to call for an investigation into numerous claims in the 1990s that such activity was going on.
Israel stripped body organs off Palestinians: MP
An Israeli Knesset member says there is evidence showing that deceased Palestinians were stripped bare of their vital organs while in police custody in Tel Aviv.Israeli politician and leader of the Arab nationalist party, Ahmad Tibi, said on Saturday that a medical institution in Israel harvested appendages from the bodies of dead Palestinians in the 1990's.
According to Tibi, the body parts, which included heart arteries, bones, and corneal tissue, were used in organ transplants for Israeli soldiers.
Meanwhile, the Israeli television has shown a documentary in this regard, claiming that Israeli politician and Knesset member Aryeh Eldad was the main culprit behind the bodysnatching incident.
The organ theft issue was first brought to the fore in a report published earlier in August by Sweden's largest circulation daily, Aftonbladet.
According to the report, Israeli soldiers were snatching and killing Palestinian men to harvest their organs for sale on the black market. It sheds light on the case of Bilal Ahmed Ghanem, a 19-year-old Palestinian man, who was shot dead in 1992 by Israeli forces in the West Bank village of Imatin.
The report claimed that Ghanem's body was then abducted and returned several days later by the Israeli military with a cut from the stomach to the neck that had been stitched up.
When asked what happened to the body, the soldiers told Bilal's family that he had undergone an autopsy in Tel Aviv. The family, however, claims that his organs had been stolen.
After the incident, at least 20 Palestinian families told Bostrom that they suspected that the Israeli military had taken the organs of their sons after they had been killed by Israeli forces and their bodies were taken away.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry reacted with anger to the report, calling it "a grotesque libel to incite anti-Semitic sentiments."
Their anger was widely believed to be due to the fact that it had made reference to the recent arrests in New Jersey of several prominent US Jews for a number of alleged crimes, including brokering the sale of organs for transplant.
In 2004, pathologist Yehuda Hiss was removed from his post as head of the state-run L. Greenberg Institute of Forensic Medicine after a Health Ministry investigation found that he had been involved for years in taking body parts, such as legs and ovaries, without family permission during autopsies, and selling them to medical schools for use in research and training.
This is while in July 2009, a New York Rabbi, Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, was arrested after it became clear that he was the main broker for a major human organs trafficking ring.
According to Knesset Member Muhammad Baraka there are more than 600 dead Palestinians' bodies buried in what Israel calls 'the number graveyards', which were created for freedom fighters Palestinians killed in combat with the Israeli army.
Baraka requested in August that Israel return the bodies to their families, but his demand is yet to be taken into account by Israeli authorities.
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Kato
Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:25:23 GMT
It goes beyond human imagination that Jewish people would kill defenceless Palestinians for their body parts, but it is true.Because Jews label themselves " The chosen people." So, they can do whatever they want with the help of the West,including my country,Canada.Wake up Canadians before they turn us into victims too.
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