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Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reported “concerns” that the Israeli military has stolen organs from Palestinian corpses during Israel’s war on Gaza.

Corpses near the Al-Shifa hospital found "missing cochleas and corneas as well as other vital organs like livers, kidneys, and hearts."

Israel has a history of stealing organs from the bodies of dead Palestinians.

Orly and Guy Return with Answers:

In December 2009, a 2000 interview with the chief pathologist at the L. Greenberg National Institute of Forensic Medicine, Yehuda Hiss, was released in which he admitted taking organs from the corpses of Palestinians without their families' permission.

"We took corneas, skin, heart valves, and bones... Almost everything was done unofficially to a large extent... And permission was not sought from the families." - Yehuda Hiss

Boström stated he "was in the region [Palestine] at that time, and on several occasions, UN employees contacted me concerned about the developments. The individuals who contacted me said that organ theft certainly happened, but they were prevented from doing anything about it."

"Palestinian young people were disappearing in the areas, and five days later they appeared back in the villages with an autopsy done on them against the will of the families." Donald Boström

The spokesperson for the Israeli Ministry of Health, Einav Shimron Greenboim, issued a statement saying, "The practice mentioned in the investigation is an old story that ended years ago."

Following the explosion of the organ theft scandal in 2009, the Israeli government tried to evade the proven charges against it. However, such necroviolent practices were upheld both by the Israeli government and the Supreme Court.