NAZARETH (PIC)– Israeli anthropologist Meira Weiss revealed the occurrence of mass harvesting of organs from Palestinian corpses for the purpose of using them for educational purposes or as transplants for Israeli patients.
In a new book Weiss said that she visited Abu Kabir forensic institute an Israeli forensic research laboratory located in the Abu Kabir neighborhood of Tel Aviv between the years 1996 and 2002 and researched into how the institute dealt with Israeli corpses especially the body of Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin after his assassination as well as the bodies of Israeli soldiers and Palestinians from the Israeli occupied lands.
She found out that Israeli dissectors at the institute separated the Jewish bodies from the Palestinian ones before they removed body parts from the Palestinian corpses alone at the behest of the Israeli army.
She noted that the Palestinian body organs were either transplanted into Israeli patients or used for research purposes by medical schools.
The anthropologist said that in the first intifada of 1987 a lot of Palestinian bodies arrived at the institute where they were autopsied and harvested.
Some employees at the institute described 1987 as the golden period because many Palestinian corpses were dissected and harvested without any problem or liability.
Weiss said in her book that what had happened at the time was illegal although the cadres of the institute had followed military orders.
Her book vindicated the complaints that had been made by the families of the autopsied Palestinians about stealing organs from the bodies of their sons.
