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- 25 juli 2007
Eight Israelis charged with trafficking human organs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JODTp2Liw60
6 jan 2012, 11:19 , Respect -
Maria 15 nov 2007
Toxic treatment
Assuta Hospital
When Farah Harma, 10, and Hayah Abu-Qabatya, 12, were diagnosed with bone cancer, their parents chose to take them to Israel for treatment. Here, they thought, the Palestinian girls would receive the best possible care. But at Assuta Hospital, a lawsuit charges, they were given cursory examinations and radiation from an outmoded machine - one that was no longer being used on Israeli patients. Both children died
Jamal Harma sits in a coffee shop in the village of Hawara, near Nablus. He comes from the Balata refugee camp. His friendly appearance, his smile and courtesy, conceal a broken man. His daughter Farah died of cancer. Now he and his wife are trying to pick up the pieces of their lives. The couple has two other children - a boy, 15, and a 2-year-old girl. During our conversation, he sometimes struggles to maintain his composure. "I don't wish the loss of a child on anyone," he says.
In January 2005, Farah, then 10 years old, was diagnosed with bone cancer. The tumor was discovered in her right knee after a biopsy at Rafidiya Hospital in Nablus. From there she was referred to Al-Watani Hospital in Nablus, and from there to Assuta Hospital in Tel Aviv for radiation treatment. Despite the gravity of his daughter's illness, her father was very hopeful. And even though the doctors in Nablus proposed that she go to Jordan for treatment, he preferred to take her to Assuta, in the framework of an agreement between the Palestinian Authority and the hospital, which stipulates that Assuta will accept, in return for payment, cancer patients who need radiation treatment that cannot be performed in the West Bank or Gaza Strip. Harma says he knew that there were good doctors here.
"When I went to the hospital in Nablus to get the biopsy results, my heart told me that something was wrong," he continues. "When I asked the secretary if the results were in, and she said yes, I could see on her face that it was bad news. The doctor asked me to come into his office and I said to him: 'Doctor, is it what I think?' And he said: 'Yes, it's cancer. Osteosarcoma. One of the toughest kinds of cancer there is.' After I got the news they had to wet my face with water. I called my wife from there. We all cried. The good news was that the cells were still small. Microscopic. At Al-Watani Hospital, we were told that she wouldn't need chemotherapy, only radiation. That the tumor was just starting to grow."
On February 24, 2005, Farah and her grandmother took the daily minibus that transports patients from Nablus to Tel Aviv, and went to Assuta Hospital. Jamal didn't have the necessary permits to leave Nablus, so he stayed at home, worrying. When Farah returned home, there was a large circle drawn on her leg with a black marking pen, from the thigh to the calf - the area the doctor had marked as the target for radiation. The girl and her grandmother said that he had seen them for a few minutes, drawn on Farah's leg with the marker and sent her for radiation treatment.
According to the civil suit filed two months ago in Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, Prof. Natalio Walach, an oncologist who heads the chemotherapy unit at Assaf Harofeh Hospital and also served as director of radiotherapy at Assuta, sent Farah for radiation treatment without examining any medical information and without conducting any further examination to determine the exact type of the girl's cancer. He looked at Farah's leg, and based on the referral letter from the Palestinian health ministry, decided on the treatment.
The suit charges that Walach did this without following a standard procedure known as treatment planning, which is designed to ensure that maximum benefit is obtained from the dangerous radiation treatments - in other words, that maximum radiation is aimed at the tumor and minimum radiation at the healthy tissue. This process includes a prior conversation with the patient, a simulation of radiation using a simulator that takes X-rays of and scans the area to be treated. In addition, according to an expert opinion (from Prof. Yitzhak Meller, an eminent orthopedic oncologist in the field of pediatric cancer) included with the lawsuit, there should also be a consultation with a pediatric oncologist.
"In fact," explains attorney Michael Sfard, who filed the suit, "from the moment of diagnosis, the doctor should regularly take part in discussions of the case and decisions should be made by an interdisciplinary team of experts that includes an oncologist and a pediatric oncologist. In this case, Walach did not consult with anyone else."
The suit claims that during the brief meeting with the doctor, Farah and her escort were not asked a single question and did not receive any explanation about the method of treatment. There was no physical examination. This week, Walach said: "I don't remember the case that well."
'Why did you come so late?'
"We didn't tell her it was cancer," says Jamal Harma. "We told her there was a tumor, but not cancer. And that it would be okay. That she'd get well. The only thing they said at Assuta was that she had to have 20 radiation treatments. No one explained anything about the process. Fourteen times my daughter traveled to Assuta, for two weeks in a row. She left Nablus every day with her grandmother at seven in the morning, passed through the checkpoints and got to Tel Aviv."
But her father was restless with worry. From time to time, he would call Maskit Bendel, the director of projects in the occupied territories for Physicians for Human Rights. With the organization's help, Bendel arranged for Harma to submit a request to the civil administration in the West Bank for entry permits for him and his daughter. When she received Farah Harma's medical papers, for the sake of issuing the permits, she suspected that something wasn't quite right. From her work in the organization, she knew that many children from the Gaza Strip and West Bank with bone cancer are referred to the orthopedic oncology department at Ichilov Hospital. This is the unit that coordinates all cases of bone cancer in the country. It has an excellent reputation and patients from all over the world come there for treatment.
In one of her conversations with Harma, he asked her whether the biggest experts on bone cancer were in Italy. "I told Jamal that there's a Prof. Yitzhak Meller here who is an expert in the field and that he should consult with him," Bendel recalled this week. "I called Meller that same day and he said: 'That's exactly my field. Send him to me.' And we made an appointment."
On March 16, Harma took his daughter tor another radiation treatment at Assuta, and afterward they went to Ichilov Hospital, where they met with Dr. Yehuda Kollender, the deputy head of the orthopedic oncology department. "When we met Kollender," says Jamal, "he asked me: 'Why did you come to us so late?' I told him: 'She's being treated at Assuta.' He asked me: 'What are you doing there at Assuta?' I said: 'What do you mean? Radiation.' Kollender took off his glasses, looked at me and clutched his head in his hands. He told his secretary not to let anyone else in the room. 'We're in big trouble,' he told me. I didn't understand what was happening. He called Assuta Hospital, while I was sitting there. I don't know whom he spoke to there. 'How could such a thing happen?' he asked them. 'You'll be responsible. This wouldn't happen to a child from Israel.'"
This week, Kollender recalled: "A little girl came to me with an advanced and neglected tumor, and when her father told me that the girl was getting radiation at Assuta, my hair stood on end. Every expert in oncology, actually every specialist in oncology or orthopedics, knows that the standard treatment all over the world for such a case is chemotherapy, followed by limb-preserving surgery, and then another round of chemotherapy. I called Assuta right away and started to shout and search for the oncologist who sent this girl for radiation. When he called me back he said: 'She was referred for radiation, so I sent her for radiation.'" Harma understood that his daughter had received faulty treatment, and that serious damage had been done.
At the request of Physicians for Human Rights, Bendel received Farah Harma's medical file. "We were stunned to discover that the file of a girl who was ill with an aggressive form of cancer consisted of just two pages," says Bendel. "The first page contained Walach's diagnosis, that Farah had osteosarcoma, and the second page documented the amounts of radiation. You've got a girl with such a dangerous tumor and this is her whole medical file?"
For Palestinians only
The papers show that Farah was given radiation with a Cobalt 60 machine. The lawsuit claims that this is a very outdated radiation instrument that has not been used for medical purposes in Israeli hospitals for years. Today there are more modern machines than the Cobalt 60, but these are used in a limited fashion, and only for very specific purposes. "As far as is known," says Sfard, "the standard method of radiation treatment is with a linear accelerator. As a matter of fact, Assuta Hospital is the only medical institution that still administers radiation with a Cobalt 60, and it does not do so to Israelis. The only use made of this machine at Assuta is for the treatments the hospital gives Palestinians as part of the agreement with the PA."
Sfard, the attorney for Yesh Din - Volunteers for Human Rights, says he hears about awful things that happen to Palestinians every day. "But when I heard this story, I could hardly believe it. It's bloodcurdling. After I started looking into it, I was just appalled. It seems that at Assuta there's a separate medical channel for Palestinians, and they are given inferior care. And that's only the tip of the iceberg. Someone's making money from this. And we're talking about cancer-stricken children here."
At Assuta Hospital this week, they did not deny using outdated equipment. "A Cobalt 60 machine was formerly in use at Assuta," the hospital said, "for those limited medical uses that were approved by top-ranking medical specialists in Israel, and in the past both Israelis and Palestinians were treated with it, as was standard in advanced Western countries like France, Italy, Belgium, England, Spain and in leading and recognized medical institutions in America."
Meller and Bendel decided not to ignore the matter. They requested a meeting with Assuta's medical director, Dr. Orna Ophir. The two came out of that meeting in May 2005 shaking their heads in disbelief. According to the lawsuit, at the meeting Ophir admitted that the Cobalt 60 machine did not meet the accepted standard in Israel and that the use made of it at Assuta was solely to meet the needs of the Palestinian Authority. At the meeting, Bendel reproached Ophir, saying that Assuta had found a way to make money from a service it couldn't sell to Israelis. Bendel says Ophir confirmed this and even added, as the lawsuit says, that she saw no ethical problem in selling an out-of-date treatment to Palestinians. "It's not my problem," she told the shocked Bendel and Meller.
Ophir acknowledged that in Harma's case, "a terrible mistake was made," but she backed Walach, saying that "he did what the Palestinian doctor told him to do." The lawsuit also asserts that Ophir remarked: "Farah's parents had given up on her before they came to us. They have fourth-rate doctors, and they want me to give them first-rate treatment."
Bendel was horrified by Ophir's reaction: "Where is the ethical and moral responsibility you expect from a medical institution and the people running it?" Assuta says that Dr. Ophir "does not remember having said the things attributed to her and that anyone who is familiar with her efforts in the matter knows that ascribing such intentions to her does not reflect her efforts at all."
Kids are kids
In the lawsuit, Sfard maintains that Assuta Hospital acted according to a discriminatory standard and followed a much lower medical standard than it does when treating Israelis. "The hospital violated its constitutional duty to preserve human dignity." Sfard adds that "when Assuta was asked to clarify its numerous faults, what was uncovered was an indifferent and racist system motivated by financial considerations, to the point that the hospital's paramount and central role of treating the sick seemed to have been forgotten."
This is a unique lawsuit. "It's a constitutional lawsuit," explains Sfard. "It's a suit about constitutional injustices when an organization or individual infringes on the rights of another person. There's a whole series of human rights here, such as equality and dignity, that were violated." The suit is seeking NIS 2 million in damages. "But it's hard to determine the compensation in a suit like this," says Sfard.
The expert opinion of Prof. Meller is appended to the lawsuit. "It's a very tragic story," Meller said this week. "If something like this were to happen to an Israeli child, who knows how far the case would have gone. In the United States, a lawsuit like this would be for millions of dollars. There are ethical violations here, and violations of the most minimal rules of medical conduct."
Assuta Hospital says that Farah Harma arrived there with a referral for radiation from the Palestinian hospital.
Meller chuckles. "It's as if you were to come to Assuta with a referral letter that said, 'Cut off her head.' Would they cut off your head then? It's not serious. If a little girl came to my department today, no matter where she came from, we wouldn't touch her before going over all the pathology material and doing every possible examination, including a biopsy. Not because I don't trust other doctors. It's a repeat examination for legal defense purposes that is standard all over the world. And they didn't do this; then they compounded the mistake by administering radiation with an outdated machine that they wouldn't dare use on an Israeli patient. The third thing is that kids are kids. You can't treat a little girl with osteosarcoma without the definite involvement of a pediatric oncologist and a multidisciplinary team. Prof. Walach is a retired oncologist who is employed by Assuta. He is not a pediatric oncologist."
What effect does unnecessary radiation have?
"Radiation destroys cells. It causes localized damage and stunts the local growth of a limb. Radiation treatments increase the chances of tumors some years later, which are a consequence of the radiation."
'We didn't give up'
The dramatic day when Harma met with Dr. Yehuda Kollender was the last day that Farah received radiation treatment. Kollender and Meller ordered that the radiation at Assuta be halted and began to treat the girl in their department, in an attempt to save her life. Jamal Harma stopped working and sold his car, which he had used as a taxi, in order to be able to stay in Tel Aviv by his daughter's side. He never budged from her bed. "For two months, we were in the hospital for a week and then two or three days at home. I knew that the situation was bad. Dr. Kollender was always saying, 'With God's help, with God's help.' That was also the time there was a closure and they closed the checkpoints. Sometimes they wouldn't let me out. I'd carry Farah in my arms, or on my back, and trudge all the way through the mountains to get around the checkpoints. Then I'd take a taxi to Taibe, get a taxi from there to Kfar Sava and from there to the Tel Aviv central bus station. We didn't give up.
"When her hair started falling out, because of the chemotherapy, the doctor recommended that we shave it all off. I said to her, 'Daddy's little girl, your hair is going to fall out, it's better that I shave it off for you and afterward you'll grow new hair that's prettier and stronger and you'll be able to go back and play with your friends.' We went into the shower in the hospital and I shaved her head. It was so hard. She cried and I cried."
But the battle was lost. "Farah's condition was very serious and she didn't respond to the treatments," explains Prof. Meller.
"We were at Ichilov for 10 months, and even though the situation was bad, for the first time in my life I felt like an equal among equals," says Harma. "I never felt like I'm a Palestinian, or a Muslim, in a hospital for Jews. The women on the medical team treated Farah like they were her sisters."
Eventually, the doctors said they had done all they could. Farah was very sick. The tumor had spread to her lungs. She had trouble breathing and had to rely on an oxygen tank. "I'm a devout man. As a Muslim, I believe that everything is in God's hands. At that point I understood that her fate was in God's hands, and we came back home."
Take her home, it's better that way
Azam Abu-Qabatya, father of Hayah, is a party to Harma's lawsuit. The two had never met, but fate brought both their daughters to Prof. Walach. Abu-Qabatya, from Yata near Hebron, is very reserved, but when he takes pictures of his daughter out of a little box, his eyes fill with tears. "It's hard," he whispers. In June 2004, Hayah was diagnosed with cancer. Dr. Mahmoud Alian, an oncologist at Al-Husseini Hospital, diagnosed bone cancer and named three possibilities as to the exact type of cancer. He recommended radiation, and Abu-Qabatya was referred to Assuta Hospital, in accordance with the agreement between the hospital and the PA.
"She went to the hospital with my eldest son, Ala, who is 22," says Abu-Qabatya. "They didn't tell them anything, didn't perform any examination, none at all. The doctor drew with a marker around the place where she had been operated on, and that was it. My daughter went to radiation treatments for 28 days. Every day. It's hard to explain what kind of effort was required for us to get to a place like Assuta. Through human rights organizations I got to a lady in Jerusalem who made sure that there was an Israeli volunteer there every day to take my daughter from one of the checkpoints. Sometimes the girl slept over at the home of these volunteers."
Abu-Qabatya talkes out pictures showing his daughter with volunteers she stayed with in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. "I'm still in touch with these people," he says, his gratitude obvious. Abu-Qabatya thought he was doing everything possible to save his daughter's life.
According to the lawsuit, even though the referral from Al-Husseini Hospital proposed three further tests to diagnose the exact form of cancer, Walach did not perform any further examinations. For reasons that are unclear, he determined that Abu-Qabatya was suffering from osteosarcoma. As in the case of Farah Harma, he looked at her leg and drew with a marker to designate the area meant to receive radiation. The lawsuit says that he subsequently sent her for radiation treatment without doing any medical tests to obtain a more precise diagnosis of the type of cancer and of the girl's medical condition. In this case, too, he failed to go through standard treatment planning or consult with a pediatric oncologist.
According to the lawsuit, Hayah Abu-Qabatya was seen by Prof. Walach for a few minutes and not asked a single question. No physical examination was performed and she also received radiation from the Cobalt 60 machine. "When my daughter finished the treatments, they asked us to come back in two months," says the father. "A week later, my daughter said that her stomach hurt. I took her to Al-Husseini Hospital. She had an X-ray. When the doctor saw the film he went nuts. He said: 'I don't understand, I don't understand! How did the disease spread like this?'"
Further examination found that the cancer had spread into the girl's abdominal cavity and lungs. Hayah began chemotherapy at Al-Husseini Hospital, but her condition rapidly deteriorated, and the treatments were halted. "At the hospital they told me, 'Take her home, it will be better that way," says Abu-Qabatya. "When my daughter began the treatments at Assuta, I started to hear rumors. There was talk that they were using old radiation machines. Machines that were no good. People who'd had radiation there, and relatives of people who'd been treated there and later died, said so. I said it couldn't be. I don't know much about machines, but I just couldn't believe it. And then look what happened." Where does he get the emotional energy now to sue the hospital? "Look," says Abu-Qabatya, "no one is going to bring my daughter back. I decided to sue for the sake of the other sick children. This effort is for them. I can't say for sure that if my daughter had received the correct treatment that she'd still be alive. Because she had a serious cancer. But at least I'd be more at ease, knowing that she received the treatment she deserves as a human being and that I, as a father, did everything. But she didn't get what she deserved. She got the wrong treatment. Who would have believed that they tell you to come for treatment and then treat you with a machine that doesn't work?"
Hayah Abu-Qabatya died at home in the village of Yata, on Thursday, October 13, 2005. She was just 12 years old. In the last days of her life, she slept because of the strong painkillers she was given. "The whole time she was being treated at Assuta, I tried to hide from her that it was cancer, so as not to break her," says her father. "But she quickly understood what was going on. A few days after we came back from the hospital, she asked me, 'Daddy, am I going to die?' and I didn't know what to answer. On the Friday of the Ramadan holiday, I came back from prayers and sat beside her. It was 12 noon. She opened her eyes for a moment, looked at me and then closed them."
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Maria 1 jan 2009
Panel to probe claims of human uranium experiments in Dimona
Ex-worker claims experiments were in breach of the Declaration of Helsinki on human experimentation.
The director of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, Shaul Horev, appointed an independent committee on Monday to look into the report that workers at the nuclear reactor facility in Dimona were required to drink uranium in 1998 as part of an experiment.
Haaretz reported on Monday that a former worker at the Negev Nuclear Research Center filed a lawsuit in the Be'er Sheva Labor Court four months ago alleging that the experiment was carried out in breach of the Declaration of Helsinki on human experimentation. The workers' consent for the experiment was not obtained in writing, nor were they warned of its risks or side effects, the lawsuit says.
NNRC Deputy human resources director Ron Tzur sent the workers a letter Monday stating that the IAEC and its centers do not experiment on humans. He cited Haaretz's report that the experiment had been carried out in breach of the Declaration of Helsinki and had infringed on participants' privacy, by including their names in the article published about the study.
"The documents I have been shown say otherwise," he wrote. "However, these allegations should be looked into."
Tzvi Kamil, chairman of the Committee for Nuclear Safety, who was asked by Horev to set up the committee, appointed a hospital director, a deputy hospital director and a nuclear specialist to probe the affair. The move was made with the consent of NNRC director Udi Adam.
Horev, who was appointed to this post about two years ago and Adam, who was appointed about a year ago, said they knew nothing of the experiment and that their predecessors had not reported it to them.
26 juli 2009
Jews selling human organs on the black market
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_KeMNS0KFQ
(1:42) Jews, politicans, busted for selling human organs REMOVED also see
6 jan 2012, 11:19 , Respect-
Maria 5 aug 2009
6 doctors to be charged with abuse of elderly patients
Physicians suspected of performing illegal experiments at geriatric hospital which may have led to death; Health Ministry: We may revoke their licenses.
The Central District Prosecution has announced it will file indictments against six doctors from the Hartzfeld Geriatric Hospital in Gedera suspected of abusing elderly patients, Ynet learned Wednesday.
The doctors are to be charged with abuse of the helpless, assault, and battery. The indictment accuses the physicians, among them the current deputy director of Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot and former director of Hartzfeld, Dr. Shmuel Levy, of performing experiments on hundreds of patients hospitalized at the clinic.
The Health Ministry said it was considering revoking the doctors' licenses. Three of the suspects, Dr. Michael Klein, Dr. Ephraim Rimon and Dr. Louisa Perlman still work at the Hartzfeld Geriatric Hospital.
The remaining two doctors were named as Dr. Nadia Kagensky and Dr. Alona Smirnov.
Three other doctors who were questioned in the case, including former Kaplan Medical Center Director Yossi Bar-ElDirector, will not be indicted.
The abuse case was first reported in 2005 following a state comptroller report on Israel's hospitals. The report said illegal experiments were being performed on thousands of hospitalized geriatric patients without their consent, and sharply criticized the hospital's Helsinki committee for approving the experiments.
The report described in detail two specific experiments in which doctors gave more than 100 patients a diminished dose of iron in order to test its effects. The report said one patient had died, and her death had not been reported according to the legal time limit. The hospital was also reported to have neglected investigating whether her death was tied to the experiment performed on her. Documentation of the experiment was found by the comptroller to have disappeared.
The report's findings were transferred by the Health Ministry to the police's National Fraud Unit, which has investigated 22 suspects in the case over the past three years. The unit's investigators brought in specialists in order to determine the experiments' ethical and legal nature.
Police also interrogated Dr. Levy, who said during questioning that all of the documents on the experiments were accidentally thrown away by the hospital's cleaning staff.
Following the investigation police recommended that indictments be filed against the six suspects as some of the experiments were suspected to have been performed illegally. The court hearing is expected to take place in coming days.
19 aug 2009
A symptom, not a solution
In a human experiment that took place 11 years ago at the nuclear reactor in Dimona, employees were coerced into drinking a mixture containing a concentration containing at least seven times more uranium than the allowable quantity in drinking water.
In a human experiment that took place 11 years ago at the nuclear reactor in Dimona, employees were coerced into drinking a mixture containing a concentration containing at least seven times more uranium than the allowable quantity in drinking water.
The experiment, as Yossi Melman reported in Haaretz, contravened the Declaration of Helsinki, and may have caused real damage to the health of the participants. When the report came out, the Atomic Energy Commission quickly asked the Committee for Nuclear Safety to appoint a special committee to investigate the experiment.
It is hard not to be amazed at the number of committees that are supposed to oversee the safety of operations at nuclear centers in Israel, including secret Knesset sub-committees, the state comptroller and internal auditors working at all those secret centers.
The system-wide failures in oversight and supervision of the experiment in question is therefore astonishing. It may be assumed that if the report had not come out in Haaretz, responsibility for this experiment would not have come under review.
The nature of these human experiments carried out by government entities like the Negev Nuclear Research Center in Dimona, the Israel Institute for Biological Research, or the Israel Defense Forces enjoys secrecy under the pretext of security considerations. The public has learned to acquiesce to these experiments, on the unfounded assumption that they are necessary to strengthen the state's ability to protect its citizens.
The systems of oversight for these experiments were put in place to reassure the public, and especially those who take part in the experiments, that they are protected by watchful, professional authorities that act as a wall against any breach of law or protocol, in order to prevent improper experimentation.
However, it turns out that there are cracks, at the very least, in this protective wall. That is the case with the uranium-drinking experiment, the dives in the Kishon River, the anthrax experiments, the nerve gas at the Institute for Biological Research and apparently other cases that are still waiting to be aired, or those that "for security reasons" will never be publicized.
These cases require the experiments' supervisors to reexamine the efficacy of their implementation, and use their authority to set clearer and more transparent procedures that do not permit looking the other way or circumvention. A special investigative committee is part of the symptom, not the solution.
20 aug 2009
The IDF: Israel's Organ Grinder
In the photo, The IDF's Chief Rabbi, OC Chaplaincy Brig. Gen. Avichai Ronzki and OC Medical Corps Brig. Gen. Nachman Ash both signed up for an organ donation card during a ceremony in the Kirya Military Headquarters in Tel Aviv.
One wonders if they are aware that, if the claims are true, their very own IDF has at least on several occasions been involved in obtaining younger organs from Palestinians they have killed, returned to their families after five days and had buried in a regime of a night-time blackout under Israeli-enforced Palestinian curfew.
There is an old Jewish joke that tells the story of a dying Jewish merchant who calls his son to his sickbed just before he perishes. He tells him, “Listen to me Moisha’le, life is not just about money… you can also do gold and diamonds.”
Monitoring Israeli and Jewish news reveals a devastating fact, it is not ‘just’ about money. It may also be about human organs.
A few weeks ago we learned about a ring of American Rabbis who had been arrested in New Jersey upon suspicion of human organs trafficking (amongst many other crimes). Rabbi Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, we read, enticed “vulnerable people to give up a kidney for $10,000 which he would turn around and sell for $160,000." Not too bad, I thought to myself then. We are living in hard times, financial melt down, credit crunch, Wall Street is licking its wounds, the car industry is evaporating. Seemingly, kidney trafficking is still booming.
In fact, the ring of the Rabbi in New Jersey didn’t take me by complete surprise. For years we have been hearing about Palestinians claiming that Israel is “deep into organ trafficking.” We also learned that the family of Alastair Sinclair, a Scottish tourist who hanged himself in an Israeli jail, “was forced to bring suit for his return with missing body parts."
In 2002 the Tehran Times reported: “The Zionist state has tacitly admitted that doctors at the Israeli forensic institute at Abu Kabir had extracted the vital organs of three Palestinian teenage children killed by the Israeli Army nearly ten days ago.
Zionist Minister of Health Nessim Dahhan said in response to a question by Arab member of the Zionist Parliament 'Knesset', Ahmed Teibi, on Tuesday that he couldn't deny that organs of Palestinian youths and children killed by the Israeli forces were taken out for transplants or scientific research.”
But now the news about Israeli trafficking of human organ is spreading to Western mainstream media. Ynet, the biggest Israeli online newspaper, reported today that “Leading Swedish daily Aftonbladet claimed in one of its articles that IDF soldiers killed Palestinians in order to trade in their organs.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T_QD-CcjmA
A few weeks ago we had a debate here on PTT whether Zionism is a colonial apparatus or not. One of the Materialist arguments against the perception of Zionism as a colonial practice was that Palestine has never been too attractive economically; it lacks oil, gold or minerals. However, this may change now. People who specialise in organ theft may find Palestine to be heaven on earth. In the light of the latest vastly spreading accusations, the Jewish national project maybe is colonial after all.
Though the Israeli government denies the accusation, and I myself far from being qualified to know what the truth of the matter is, one cannot deny that we are facing here a shift of consciousness within the Western discourse. At the end of the day, after watching the Israeli army dumping great quantities of white phosphorous on a civilian population in broad daylight, after seeing Israelis gathering gleefully en masse on the hills around Gaza just to watch their military spreading death and physical suffering in a genocidal manner, after reading that 94% of the Israelis supported the IDF military campaign against the elderly, women and children, most of whom were refugees with nowhere to escape and seek further refuge, organ theft seems to be a ‘light crime’.
Whether or not the Swedish paper’s accusations are genuine is yet to be revealed. However, one fact has already been established: after so many years of Western inclination to dance to the relentless crying violin of the Jewish melancholic victim serenade, the Western media is now changing its appetite, it is willing to confront Jewish institutional crime.
Rather than talking about the rise of anti-Semitism, we better discuss the growth of Jewish institutional crime.
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE
ISRAELI ORGAN TRAFFICKING
Two Haifa men sentenced to jail for organ trafficking.
Prof. Yehuda Hiss, the director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir was under police investigation in 2002 for removing organs from deceased persons without familial consent. He was dismissed by the Health Ministry for a while until Hiss agreed to a plea bargain. He admitted to being involved in the removal of body parts from 125 bodies and was reprimanded for this.
The stories about Palestinian Intifada dead arriving home with organs removed began soon after the outbreak of the Intifada in 1987. Palestinian pathologist Dr Hatem Abu Ghazaleh said there were many credible reports about this.
Roughly at the same time there was a flurry of news about successful transplants. It scared many people. And now we have the revelations about an organ traficking network with brokers in the USA, Turkey, Brazil and South Africa. The don of the whole operation is one Ilan Peri in Israel. Whether it is a matter of perception or fact, the question of organ theft should be addressed.
Two Haifa men sentenced to jail for organ trafficking
bilal achmed ghanan 19years old
In a precedent-setting ruling yesterday the Haifa District Court yesterday sentenced two Haifa men to jail for trafficking in humans for the purpose of harvesting their organs.
John Allan (formerly Mohammad Gheit), 59, was sentenced to four years in jail with a three-year suspended sentence. Allan was also ordered to pay each of his six victims NIS 15,000. Hassan Zakhalka, 32, was sentenced to 20 months in prison and 12 months suspended sentence for aiding and abetting human trafficking for the harvest of organs.
This is the first time an Israeli court has issued a conviction for this offense, based on a law passed at the end of last year.
The pair confessed to the charges against them in a plea bargain with the prosecution.
Allan and Zakhalka admitted that at the end of 2006, they persuaded Arabs from the Galilee and central Israel who were developmentally challenged or mentally ill to agree to have a kidney removed for payment. They located their victims by placing ads in the newspaper offering money for organ donation. According to the indictment, the pair gave false information to the donors, and also pressured and threatened them to give up their kidney. After the surgery, Allan and Zakhalka did not pay the donors as promised.
One of the victims was an illiterate 32-year-old single mother from an Arab village in central Israel. The pair told her she would undergo a simple operation, and she would be back on her feet in two days. At one point, the woman changed her mind, and in response Allan and Zakhalka threatened to report her to the police, telling her it was a crime to agree to donate a kidney. Like the other victims, the woman was flown to Ukraine where she underwent the surgery. When she returned home, the victims refused to pay her the $7,000 they had promised her.
Allan and Zakhalka were part of a criminal ring that included an Israeli surgeon, Dr. Michael Zis, who also worked at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center. According to the indictment, Zis sold the kidneys he harvested for between $125,000 and $135,000, of which Allan received $10,000 dollars. The State Prosecutor’s Office is preparing an extradition order against Zis, who is being held in prison in Ukraine.
The conviction of Allan and Zakhalka was made possible by an amendment to the criminal code that was passed in October 2006, which added a number of clauses prohibiting trafficking in humans for the purpose of harvesting organs. Judges Josef Elron, Ron Sokol and Menahem Raniel decided to accept the plea bargain because they said clear legal interpretation had not yet been formulated with regard to the crime of human trafficking for the purpose of harvesting organs, Lacking such clear interpretation of the clause, they said, “the parties might be dragged into presenting much complex evidence.”
Ref. Haaretz
Also read… Israel-Ukraine Organ Trafficking Ring, Romania probes Israeli adoption agency link in organ trafficking and Israeli suspected of organ trafficking
US Kids Organs to feed Israel´s Health System + Jew goes ballistic on reporter over rabbi arrests
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- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0nFOXXoKCg
- “In 2002 the then State Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein ordered the police to investigate the head of the Institute of Forensice Medicine at Abu Kabir Prof. Yehuda Hiss because of suspected corruption and maladministration related to theft of organs.
This came after a growing list of relatives of deceased Jewish Israelis (among them Israeli soldiers) discovered that their loved ones had organs removed without consent. There was a long list of charges against Hiss ranging from unethical behaviour as a medical professional to criminal acts such as the illegal sale of and dealings in organs and body parts, removing organs from deceased persons without consent, and misrepresenting organs in returned bodies.
This did not even involve Palestinians, only Jewish Israelis.
The stories about Palestinian Intifada dead arriving home from Abu Kabir with their organs removed (for which there is hard evidence) begin to circulate widely in the 1990s.”
Ref: Comment from Haaretz
The Israel’s kidney theft ring
I’m talking about the kidneys offered by an “organist” named Izzy Rosenbaum. The FBI scooped him up in a corruption probe that focused on pay-offs to New Jersey pols (nothing surprising about that) and money laundering by prominent rabbis:
The probe also uncovered Levy Izhak Rosenbaum of Brooklyn, who is accused of conspiring to broker the sale of a human kidney for a transplant. According to the complaint, Rosenbaum said he had been brokering sale of kidneys for 10 years.
“His business was to entice vulnerable people to give up a kidney for $10,000 which he would turn around and sell for $160,000,” said Marra.
Marra is a US attorney involved with the case. News accounts like the one quoted above have led the public to believe that the “donors” were both willing and compensated, and that this operation was purely private. But good evidence indicates that the matter is far, far more troubling.
The kidneys were “donated” at gunpoint by unwilling victims.
Police uncover illegal organ trade ring
Nine suspected members of an illegal organ-smuggling ring had their remands extended by the Nazareth Magistrate’s Court on Monday morning.
The model of a human kidney.
The model of a human kidney.
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SLIDESHOW: Israel & Region World
Police were tipped off about the ring by a northern resident in her 30s who claimed that she had been operated on in the Ukraine but had not received the full payment promised her for her kidney.
Following that complaint, the Amakim District Central Investigative Unit (ADCIU) began to explore intelligence leads, and unearthed a number of possible cases in which the same group of people was involved.
During the investigation, police employed an undercover agent who responded to a newspaper advertisement and established contact with the criminal network.
Ref: Jpost
Was a Scotsman Murdered That A Israeli Might Live?
Moreover, [Jerusalem District Court Judge Ruth] Orr was well within her rights to be skeptical of the pathological findings of [government pathologist Dr. Yehuda] Hiss, who has long been the subject of controversy as director of Israel Institute for Forensic Medicine, at Abu Kabir. Last November, a local Tel Aviv paper Ha’ir ran a 12-page expose of Abu Kabir and revealed how the national lab allows medical students to practice on bodies sent there for autopsies, and transfers body parts for transplants without permission from the family of the deceased.
The family of Alastair Sinclair, a Scottish tourist who hanged himself in an Israeli jail, was forced to bring suit for the return of missing body parts.
University of Glasgow pathologists who did an autopsy at the request of Sinclair’s family, found that it had been returned without a heart (which they suspect was used for a transplant) and without the crucial bone needed to confirm the claim that he died from hanging.
REF: Israelis deep into organ trafficing
During the first ten months of the year, 26 donors contributed to 91 recipients. The donors included traffic-accident fatalities, operating-room deaths, and seven-year-old Ali Jawarish of Bethlehem, accidentally shot by IDF soldiers during riots outside Rachel’s Tomb. He was pronounced brain-dead on Nov. 15; his organs were transplanted into three Israeli-Arab teenagers the next day. Nearly half the donors during the first six months of 1997 were gastarbeiter whose families overseas gave their consent by telephone — sometimes in return for Health Ministry funding to fly the corpse home.
Israel Is Deep Into Organ Trafficking
Israel has recently become something of a pariah in the transplant world. Without a strong culture of organ donation and under the pressure of angry transplant candidates, the Ministry of Health has refused to crack down on the country’s multi-million dollar business in transplant tourism that arranges junkets from dialysis clinics in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv to medical centres in Europe and the United States.
“Why should we Israelis be made to travel to third world clinics to get the kidneys we need to survive from the bodies of peasants, soldiers, or guest workers who may be in worse physical shape than ourselves?” a 71-year-old “kidney buyer” from Tel Aviv asked me rhetorically. “Organs should be seen as a human, not as a national resource.” It was good to see “Avirham,” an elderly gentleman, alive and happy with his revitalizing 22-year-old “peasant” kidney. And his living donor? “A peasant, without anything!” he replied. “Do you have any idea what $1,000, let alone $5,000 means in the life of a peasant?”
For most bio-ethicists, the “slippery slope” in transplant medicine begins with the emergence of a black market in organs and tissue sales. For the anthropologist, it emerges much earlier: the first time a frail and ailing human looks at another living person and realizes that inside that other body is something that can prolong his or her life. The desire is articulated: “I want that; I need that even more than you.” In terms of transplants, the kidney has emerged as the ultimate fetish, promising to satisfy the most basic of human desires — that for life, vitality and élan.
The sale of human organs and tissues requires that certain disadvantaged individuals and populations have been reduced to the role of “suppliers.” It is a scenario in which bodies are dismembered, transported, processed and sold in the interests of a more socially advantaged population of organ and tissue receivers. I use the word “fetish” advisedly to conjure up the displaced magical energy that is invested in the strangely animate kidney. Avirham, who flew from Jerusalem to Georgia for his kidney, explained why he would never tolerate a donation from a corpse: “That kidney is practically dead. It was probably pinned down under the wheels of a car for several hours… I was able to see my donor. He was young, healthy, strong. Just what I was hoping for.”
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, The Organ of Last Resort, UNESCO, The Courier, July/August 2001 www.unesco.org/courier/2001_07/uk/doss34.htm
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6 jan 2012, 11:19 , Respect -
Maria 23 aug 2009
The Body Snatchers of Israel
Independently of the recently published article of the Swedish journalist Donald Boström about the Israelis murdering Palestinians in order to harvesting of organs for sale, and independently of the hysteric screeching and denials by the Israelis, I want to present my readers what I witnessed, saw, observed and heard during my 22 years of journalistic work under the Israeli military occupation in the West Bank and Gaza.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc1XdS4QBMc
My personal experience confirms what Mr. Boström wrote: while I do not know the particular case which he describes, it is typical for what the Israelis do in Palestine all the time, what is “normal” since the early seventies.
The Israeli military occupation started in the early 1970s to capture and keep the bodies of the Palestinians who they murdered.
Since the early seventies, hundreds of Palestinians have been buried in a secret and number graves of the Israeli military. Since the early seventies, thousands of Palestinian victims of the occupation were “autopsied”, and many of their bodies kept in military numbered graves.
Most members of the resistance who were killed were taken for “autopsy”, and also those who were wounded were abducted from the hospital by the Israelis.
This practice became somewhat less widespread only when the PA came to power, meaning that people murdered in areas controlled by the PA were not “autopsied” any more, but this would still happen to people murdered or wounded in areas controlled by the Israelis.
The Israeli military leadership, the Central Command and the so-called “defense” Ministry cannot hide these well- and widely known facts: the Israeli military murders people all the time, and most if not all of the murdered are taken for “autopsy”, many of them are buried in Israeli military cemeteries in numbered and secret graves.
These facts cannot be hidden by the fancy statements issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel, by the deranged terrorist and war criminal Ehud Barak and the corrupt extremist Benjamin Netanyahu.
In many cases, the so-called “civil administration”, military commanders and officers were returning to their families the bodies of Palestinians who they had murdered after the middle of the night, and after a few days “detention” of the bodies.
The military officers would call the families of the victim after the middle of the night (usually at 1-3 in the morning), demanding that a few relatives, “not more than 10”, wait on the street for burying the body.
The first condition of the military “civil” administration was that the burial should take place immediately after receiving the body, in the dark of the night, for “security reasons”,
the second condition of the Israelis was that women should not participate in the secret funeral, also for “security reasons”
(actually they wanted to avoid that the screams of grieving mothers, sisters, daughters of the victim would be heard, so alerting the neighbourhood to the crime).
The Israeli officers always used “security reasons” to justify and cover up their criminal activities!
On each such occasion returning the body of one of their murdered victims, the “civil” military administration officers would follow the funeral procession, driving their armored grey cars and waiting until the end of the burial.
A number of other military vehicles filled with soldiers would surround the funeral, watching the burial of their victims, always ready to shoot the small number of participants in the funeral.
Of course, the officers would always insistently make it clear to the family that they were doing them a great favor in returning the body of their beloved one and allowing them to bury it.
Empty Bodies, Stuffed With Cotton
What is the reason to bury somebody in middle of the night, with a company of IDF soldiers and the Israeli military “civil” administration officers surrounding the procession?
If the burial is normal, and the organs of the victims were not stolen, then why should they be buried in the dark of the night? The families of the victims all knew that they were receiving empty bodies, filled with cotton, to be buried in the middle of the night.
One fact for Ehud Barak: near the end of the first Intifada, after the start of the so-called Oslo peace negotiations, the brother-in-law of one of my paternal uncles was murdered by the Israelis at the Qalandia checkpoint, he was returned to his family stuffed with cotton some days after the incident.
My uncles relative, Monzer Naji Rashid Abdullah, was a small transportation entrepreneur; he was not involved in political activities of any kind.
He was murdered on 14 April 1991, two days before Eid Al-Adha, a festivity comparable to Christmas. As a result of his to date unpunished murder by Israelis manning the checkpoint, his wife and children were reduced to dependency on charities.
The deranged war criminal Ehud Barak and his corrupt “state” should better stop denying what the Swedish writer Donald Boström published in Aftonbladet.
I personally was witness of the Israeli soldiers and military vehicles kidnapping the bodies of dead Palestinians from the emergency rooms of hospitals, in some other cases I saw the soldiers following the Palestinians to the cemetery, to steal the body from the family before the burial.
This vile practice became so widespread that many people started carrying the bodies of the murdered to be buried at home, in the garden, under the house or under trees, instead of waiting for the ambulance to take them to the hospital.
The Israelis always murder or gravely injure some people at demonstrations, and first the Israeli soldiers themselves would take the bodies, then they would besiege the hospitals where the bodies were taken by Palestinian ambulances – finally people present at demonstrations started taking the murdered and injured directly to their families.
Everybody in Palestine knows that the Israeli soldiers besiege the hospitals in order to kidnap the bodies. The most disgusting thing I witnessed was when the criminal soldiers of Barak and Netanyahu were following Palestinian funeral processions to the cemetery to kidnap the bodies.
The issue of stealing the Palestinian organs is known to everybody in Palestine. I reported several times about this crime. In many cases my reports were rejected by the criminal military censorship of the occupation, these reports are until this moment stored at the military censorship office in “Bet Agron” in occupied Jerusalem.
I know that the criminal “state of Israel” was harvesting the organs of Palestinians who were kidnapped by the Israeli military from the emergency rooms of the Palestinian hospitals in Hebron, Nablus, Ramallah, Jenin, and everywhere in the West Bank and Gaza, and transferred to the Israeli hospital (or rather, butchery) of Abu Kabir in Tel Aviv.
The families of the victims know the criminal israeli officers of the so-called “civil administration” who were covering this crime.
Everybody knew Captain Eyal, Col. Fuad Hahul, Col. Amnon Cohen (now head of the “infrastructure department” of the “civil” administration in occupied Palestine), Rafi Geoli, “Alex”, and many other officers whose name I don’t know, but who were always present.
brigadier general Gadi Zohar(res.)
Everybody knew the higher commanders, above them brigadier general Gadi Zohar, (former head of the civil administration, and IDF intelligence officer for 30 years),
-- brigadier general (res.) (former head of the civil administration),
-- Maj. Gen. Gadi Shamni (former IDF brigade in Hebron and the current head of the central command),
-- Col. Baruch Goldstein (formerly with the IDF “civil” administration in Hebron and currently with the municipality of Jerusalem),
-- Lt.Col. Baruch Nagar (former head of the civil administration and the current head of the water administration for the West Bank and Gaza),
-- Col. Yigal Sharon, (former brigade of Hebron and the current, Coffee Salesman),
-- Brigadier General (res.) Dov Sedaka, (former head of the civil administration and the current head of the zionist Chairman of the steering committee),
-- Maj.Gen. Matan Vilnai,
-- Brigadier General Noam Tivon,
-- Col. Yehuda Fuchs ,
-- Lt. Col. Udi ben Muha, the military commander of Hebron, and others.
And everybody knew that these people were involved in covering the harvesting of organs of their victims.
-- Captain Eyal,
-- Col. Fuad Halhal,
-- Col. Amnon Cohen,
-- Rafi Geoli
and of those mentioned above and many others were the ones calling the families of the murdered Palestinians, in the middle of the night to inform them about the bodies of their loved ones.
These criminals were telling the Palestinian families that they “had worked hard to make it possible to release the bodies of their relatives from the military headquarter” – implying that it was a favor, and that the military commanders Shamni, Goldstein, Nagar, … had ordered that the bodies should be buried in the dark and that “not more than ten persons” were allowed to be present at the funeral.
Often the relatives of the murdered people were screaming and shouting, as they had received an empty body stuffed with cotton. These criminal officers and their soldiers forced them to shut up.
All this criminal activity is not only a clear violation of the human rights, a horrendous crime against humanity, but a disrespect of the sanctity of life which can only be explained with mental deficiencies of the perpetrators.
If Israel did not steal the ORGANS of the murdered Palestinians, and if Israel did not want to cover up their inhuman crimes, and if Israel respects the Geneva conventions and other humanitarian laws, in peace and in war, then Israel would not kidnap and transfer to the Abu Kabir “hospital” in Tel Aviv hundreds, perhaps thousands of Palestinians bodies of people who were murdered during PEACE demonstrations in the cities of the West Bank.
If it is not true that Israelis are harvesting the organs of murdered Palestinians, then why were they transferring the bodies of their victims to be butchered at Abu Kabir? The reasons of the death were known. The victims all received bullets in the head, or in the chest by Israeli snipers.
After all the whining and screeching of the Israelis after the Swedish newspaper article, the fact stands that hundreds, perhaps thousands of bodies and even people known to have been alive were transferred to the Abu Kabir autopsy center and returned to their families stuffed with cotton.
Hundreds of victims who were buried in the dark by their families, and hundreds or thousands more bodies which Israel keeps in their numbered graves.
During the first Intifada and during the so called peace time I personally witnessed how the Israeli military were kidnapping Palestinian bodies and gravely injured people from the emergency room of Princess Alia hospital in Hebron.
Some years later I also witnessed how the Israeli army kidnapped the bodies of the Palestinian dead from the then new Al-Ahli hospital: All the area would be declared military zone, the hospital surrounded and invaded by troops, nobody was allowed to move inside the building.
All these kidnapped bodies of Palestinians, and also people known to have been living, were killed before taken to Abu Kabir for “autopsy”.
Taking in consideration these facts, everything I know, and until Israel comes clean on who are the members of the organ harvesting mafia, the only conclusion is that:
A- All the Israeli officers and civil personnel of the so-called civil administration who served in the West Bank since the early seventies were involved at least covering up the harvesting of organs from Palestinians, at the very least conniving, but probably taking part in the racket for money.
B- All the Israeli doctors and other personnel who worked in Abu Kabir since the early seventies were involved in harvesting and selling organs from Palestinians.
C- All the IDF snipers and other soldiers who shot Palestinian (and foreigners) at peace demonstrations are and were involved with the mafia which harvests and sells the organs of murdered Palestinians, at least some of the involved in the crimes are given money.
D- The IDF central command and most if not all officers in the chain of command until the field fully know what is going on, and they connive with the harvesting of organs from Palestinians they murder, they offer planning and logistics for the commission of the crimes, and make the families of the victims shut up. All the Israeli State and the whole Israeli Nation who accept the continued military occupation are involved in crimes against humanity.
E- Most if not all the Israeli medical establishment knows what is going on, and they keep silence because they either get money, or they are rewarded in other ways for conniving in these crimes. This is confirmed because of repeated complaints of doctors from other countries because Israel is one of the few jurisdictions which does not forbid commerce with human organs and body parts.
F- The Israeli health ministry is fully informed of what goes on. This would be corroborated by reports that organ traffickers captured in Brazil and South Africa in 2003 stated as much as that they had been given “business contacts” by “people from the Israeli government”, and that the Israeli government financed organ transplants.
I think that the Israeli government and all those suspected of being involved have some hard questions to answer, rather than complaining about a well written report in a Swedish newspaper which speaks about only one case among thousands:
Where are the bodies of the two brothers Imad and Adel Awad Allah from Al-Bireh in the district of Ramallah, who were murdered on 10 September 1998 on the farm of Akram Maswadeh near Hebron?
Where are the bodies of Hani Ahmad Kharboush and
Adel Mohammad Hadaideh who were murdered on 6 June 2003 in “Ateel”, a town north of Tulkarem in the West Bank?
Where is the body of Sarhan Borhan who was murdered on 4 October 2003 in the Tulkarem refugee camp?
Where is the body of Hasan Isa Abbas who was murdered on 9 October 1994, in Jerusalem?
Where is the body of Hisham Hamad who was murdered in Gaza on 11 November 1993?
Where is the body of Salah Jad Allah Salem who was murdered on 14 October 1994?
Where are the bodies of the two Japanese citizens who were murdered in 1972?
Can Israel prove that the organs of these people, and those of the hundreds, perhaps thousands of Palestinians which are buried in numbered graves of the Israeli military, were not stolen?
Why does Israel bury the victims of their occupation in secret, numbered graves, if their organs were not stolen?
I know the answer of the criminal sophists of Israel in advance: they will say practicing the killing dutiesthat all these people buried their numbered graves were “terrorists or unknown”.
But I say that these are LIES and the usual propaganda which Israel uses to cover their crimes. Many people who were buried in these graves were not “terrorists” but legitimate resistance, many of them were peace demonstrators, and none of them were unknown.
The only thing unknown or silenced until now is that the israelis are murderers, thieves of organs, a criminal occupational state which commits to all kind of crimes against humanity for fun and profit.
Dr. Yehuda Hiss Butchered Three Teenagers From Gaza
Another issue about which the Israelis have some explaining to do is the story of three teenagers from Gaza.
On the evening of Sunday 30 December 2001 the Israeli military occupation fired several artillery shells towards these three north of Beit Lahiya in Gaza. They were
Ahmed Mohammed Banat, 15 years,
Mohammed Abd El-Rahman Al- Madhoun, 16 years and
Mohamed Ahmed
After murdering them with flechette shells, a military vehicle drove Yehuda_Hissover one of them, and their bodies were delivered to Abu Kabir in Tel Aviv, for “autopsy”, without the consent of their families, and without the issuance of a warrant to conduct an autopsy according to the law.
The chief pathologist at Abu Kabir (the so-called “Israeli forensic institute”) Dr. Yehuda Hiss, said that they received the children without knowing their names, they had all been found killed by nails which the tank shell contained (flechettes).
Hiss broke the law Israeli when he accepted the bodies of the children without knowing who are were and without the knowledge of their families, but that is of no concern. The bodies the three were given to the PA stuffed with cotton several days after their murder.
The director of the Jerusalem Center for Democracy and Human Rights, Salim Khalleh, stated that their organization has been able to document 270 cases of Palestinian bodies “reserved” in hands of the Israeli occupation, which are buried in numbered graves in secret military cemeteries, or in numbered compartments of cooling facilities.
Among these cases, 24 are of Palestinian citizens of the city of Tulkarem. On 8 April 2009 the families of these persons whose bodies are still in the power of the israelis held a demonstration in Tulkarem.
The demonstrators presented a petition to the director of Red Cross, in which they demanded that the international organizations make pressure on Israel to release the bodies of their sons., 17 years.
What follows are some of the names of Palestinians published by the Jerusalem Center for Democracy and Human Rights and whose bodies still in the hands of Israel, among other hundreds. The question is, where are these bodies? Are they in the refrigerated facilities, or were they buried in numbered graves after their organs were harvested? Why are they not returned to their families if not because Israeli crimes must be covered up?
Abdel-Fattah Mohamed Badir – murdered near Jericho on 15-7-1975.
Murad Mohammed Abu Assal – murdered on 30-1-2002.
Sarhan Burhan Sarhan – murdered during the invasion of the Tulkarem refugee camp on 4-10-2003.
Saif Allah Bashir Badran – murdered near the illegal Mawr colony on 1-1-2003.
Adel Mohamed Hadaydeh – murdered in “Atteel”, a town north of Tulkarem on 16-6 -2003.
Tarek Samir Sfaqeh – murdered in the illegal Hermesh colony on 30-10-2002 .
Faiz Mohammed Awad – murdered in Lebanon on 17-8-1967.
Ramzi Fakhri Ardah – murdered on 3-4 – 2004 in the illegal Avnei Hefetz colony.
Khalid Ahmed Abul-Ezz – murdered on 30-10-2002 in Zeita near the Apartheid wall.
Khaled Subhi Sandjak – murdered in the illegal colony of Sha’ar Ephraim.
Muaiad Mahmoud Salah Al-Din – blew himself up on 8-11-2001.
Abed El-Basset Mohamed Odeh – blew himself up on 27-3-2002.
Ahmed Sami Gawi - murdered in Netanya on 12-7-2005.
Mohammad Jamel Faraj.
Ahmed Ibrahim Abed Allah – murdered in Jerusalem June 1967.
Iyad Naeem Radad – murdered on 15-7-1979 in Al-Zawieh near Salfit.
Rami Mohammed Idris – murdered in Netanya on 31-3-2002.
Mahmoud Ahmed Marmash – blew himself up on 18-5-2001.
Mufed Mohammad Asrawi – murdered at Baqa Al-Garbiah on 21-2-2002.
Muhammad Ali Abu Zeneh – murdered in the Jordan Valley on 12-5-1969.
Lutfi Amin Abu Saada – blew himself up in Netanya on 25-12-2006.
Omani Ahmad Kryosh – murdered in “Atteel” town near Tulkarem on 5-6-2003.
Mashhour Aruri - murdered on 18 May 1976 together with other three persons from Lebanon.
The bodies of 88 Palestinian from Gaza who are known to be in the hand of Israel (no names given).
Abed Allah Kallab and his friends
Mohamed Abed El-Qader Abu Al-Zulof and
Mohamed Hanafi –
all from the Rafah refugee camp, disappeared on 7 March 1988.
Fadi Ahmed Al-Amoudi age 22 years from Beit Hanoun – murdered on 17 April 2004 at the Erez military checkpoint
Abed Al-Naser Ferwana, Director of the Department of Statistics, at the Ministry of Prisoners in the Palestinian National Authority, a former prisoner and researcher about Palestinian prisoners of Israel, a competent speaker for prisoners affairs, said that the number of Palestinian prisoners who were murdered after their arrest and detention in the Israeli jails sharply increased during the Al-Aqsa Intifada.
They are in sum the double of the number of people who the Israelis murdered in a quarter of century since they occupied the West Bank and Gaza. The bodies of these murdered prisoners are also kept in the secret Israeli cemeteries, in a few cases the dead are released two weeks after the Israelis murder them.
This is a new proof that the Israelis harvest their organs according to Ferawneh.
The deranged criminal Ehud Barak, the people from the Israeli Central Command, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the others involved in these subhuman crimes should stop threatening Swedish journalist Donald Boström with criminal complaints, as they are the first persons who should be investigated not only for these monstrosities, but also for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
The time of silencing journalists and curtailing freedom of speech is over.
The public opinion of the world is loath the criminality of Israel and the repetitive and stupid screeching of “anti-semitism” whenever one of their crimes is uncovered. Constant and inappropriate invocation of the holocaust is boring to the point where nobody cares anymore, and it does not help anymore to cover up their crimes.
The criminal sophists of Israel would better clarify were all these bodies are buried, and were their organs are.
If the Israelis go forward and cause troubles for Donald Boström in court, I will volunteer to testify in his favor about these disgusting crimes of the Israelis, and I appeal to all Palestinians who have such a case in their family, to also offer to testify in favor of Mr. Boström should this become necessary.
Addition:
Many Palestinian bodies which had their organs removed are still in the refrigerators of the Israeli jails, hospitals, and in secret cemeteries, and the UN, the Red Cross, and other human rights organizations must use their power to investigate this issue and have a look at these bodies stored in different places in Israel.
I would ask Israel to invite a team composed of international doctors and journalists, to see all these bodies so that they can see whether these accusations against the innocent State of Israel are unjustified, or if the State of Israel actually continues violating the international humanitarian laws and customs and is keeping these bodies from the families of the victims in order to hide these crimes.
I challenge if the Israeli government would accept to open their refrigerators and other storage places were they still have many empty bodies of Palestinians before any teams of journalists and human rights organizations.
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Maria 27 aug 2009
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