* Ian Black, Middle East editor
* guardian.co.uk, Sunday 20 December 2009 21.46 GMT
Israel has admitted that pathologists harvested organs from dead
Palestinians, and others, without the consent of their families - a
practice that it said ended in the 1990s, it emerged at the weekend.
The admission, by the former head of the country's forensic institute,
follows a furious row when a Swedish newspaper reported Israel was
killing Palestinians in order to use their organs � a charge that
Israel denied and called "anti-semitic".
The revelation, in a TV documentary, is likely to generate anger in
the Arab and Muslim worlds and reinforce sinister stereotypes of
Israel and its attitude to Palestinians. Iran's state-run Press TV
tonight reported the story illustrated with photographs of dead or
badly injured Palestinians.
Ahmed Tibi, an Israeli Arab MP, said the report incriminated the
Israeli army.
The story emerged in an interview with Dr Yehuda Hiss, former head of
the Abu Kabir forensic institute near Tel Aviv.
The interview was conducted in 2000 by an American academic who
released it because of the row between Israel and Sweden over a report
in the Stockholm newspaper Aftonbladet.
Channel 2 TV 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,
often without permission from relatives.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/20/israel-admits-harvesting-palestinian-organs
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