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Israel harvested organs without permission, officials say
December 21, 2009 5:14 p.m. EST
Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israel harvested organs from bodies in the 1990s without permission of family members, the former head of a state-run forensic laboratory said in a newly released interview.
Government officials acknowledge that the practice happened, but emphasize that it ended years ago.
In an interview in 2000, which was released to an Israeli TV channel and broadcast over the weekend, Dr. Yehuda Hiss -- who was once head of the Abu Kabir forensic institute -- discussed the practice.
"We started to harvest corneas for various hospitals in Israel," Hiss said in the interview on Israel's Channel 2 network
The report said organs were at times also harvested from Palestinians and foreign workers.
In the interview, Hiss was asked about the legality of such practices. "It wasn't clear," he said, adding that he thought families were supposed to be asked for permission.
After getting permission from family members to perform an autopsy, "we felt free" to harvest organs, he said.
Organs were not harvested if it was believed relatives might discover it, he said, adding that in some cases glue was used to close eyelids to hide missing corneas.
The report included a statement from the military, the Israel Defense Forces, saying the activity ceased a decade ago.
The report also described how for years the Abu Kabir institute, "supplied not just tragic passing announcements but also news about organs donated for transplants which saved the lives of hundreds of patients."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/12/21/israel.organs/
Arafat Jaradat and the man behind his autopsy
Jessica Purkiss
Wednesday, 02 July 2014 16:37
Last Monday, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz published an article on Turkish pathology expert Dr. Sebnem Korur Fincanci's findings regarding the death of Palestinian prisoner Arafat Jaradat. Thirty year old Jaradat died in his cell at Israel's Megiddo Prison on February 23, 2013. He had been arrested by the Shin Bet security service five days earlier, on suspicion of throwing rocks. (Guess who did his autopsy)
Arafat Jaradat and the man behind his autopsy
Reading this will make one ill, apparently we'll never really know how anyone died or where they may of disappeared to , for me anyway, just can't believe anything anymore.
December 21, 2009 5:14 p.m. EST
Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israel harvested organs from bodies in the 1990s without permission of family members, the former head of a state-run forensic laboratory said in a newly released interview.
Government officials acknowledge that the practice happened, but emphasize that it ended years ago.
In an interview in 2000, which was released to an Israeli TV channel and broadcast over the weekend, Dr. Yehuda Hiss -- who was once head of the Abu Kabir forensic institute -- discussed the practice.
"We started to harvest corneas for various hospitals in Israel," Hiss said in the interview on Israel's Channel 2 network
The report said organs were at times also harvested from Palestinians and foreign workers.
In the interview, Hiss was asked about the legality of such practices. "It wasn't clear," he said, adding that he thought families were supposed to be asked for permission.
After getting permission from family members to perform an autopsy, "we felt free" to harvest organs, he said.
Organs were not harvested if it was believed relatives might discover it, he said, adding that in some cases glue was used to close eyelids to hide missing corneas.
The report included a statement from the military, the Israel Defense Forces, saying the activity ceased a decade ago.
The report also described how for years the Abu Kabir institute, "supplied not just tragic passing announcements but also news about organs donated for transplants which saved the lives of hundreds of patients."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/12/21/israel.organs/
Arafat Jaradat and the man behind his autopsy
Jessica Purkiss
Wednesday, 02 July 2014 16:37
Last Monday, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz published an article on Turkish pathology expert Dr. Sebnem Korur Fincanci's findings regarding the death of Palestinian prisoner Arafat Jaradat. Thirty year old Jaradat died in his cell at Israel's Megiddo Prison on February 23, 2013. He had been arrested by the Shin Bet security service five days earlier, on suspicion of throwing rocks. (Guess who did his autopsy)
Arafat Jaradat and the man behind his autopsy
Reading this will make one ill, apparently we'll never really know how anyone died or where they may of disappeared to , for me anyway, just can't believe anything anymore.