Israel has not ratified the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, which mandates respect for the dignity of the dead and prohibits the looting or mutilation of bodies.
A 2019 Israeli Supreme Court ruling permits the IDF to bury those they've killed temporarily in an off limits “Numbers Cemetery”, where around 255 bodies are reported to be held in sub-zero conditions. Laws passed in 2021, allow the police and army to hold onto bodies permanently, with 145 bodies being held in Israeli mortuaries. It's most likely that this is so their organs can be harvested for trade on the black market.
Chabad Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh told the New York Jewish Week that the Halakha, (traditional Jewish law) would probably permit seizing an unwilling non-Jew for a liver transplant to save the life of a Jew: "Jewish life has infinite value. There is something infinitely more holy and unique about Jewish life than non-Jewish life."
Gaza War - In Gaza since, Oct. 7, Euro-Med reported that graves in Jabalia were vandalized, dug up and emptied, including Al-Falujah cemetery, Ali bin Marwan, Sheikh Radwan, Al-Shuhada, and Sheikh Shaaban cemeteries, in addition to St. Porphyrius Church cemetery in Gaza City and Al-Shuhada cemetery in the northern town of Beit Lahia.
Evidence of organ theft was also found from the bodies of those executed at Nasser Hospital by the IDF.
In 2024, the Government Media Office in Gaza reported that Israel had delivered the bodies of about 80 Palestinians to the city of Rafah, which were “in a state of decomposition and difficult to recognize,” with many of them missing organs.
Yehuda Hiss - In 2000, anthropologist, Nancy Scheper-Hughes recorded the former head of Israel's forensic institute, Yehuda Hiss, on tape admitted that pathologists harvested organs from dead Palestinians without the consent of their families, a practice which Israel said ended in the 1990s. He added that: “In some cases, glue was used to close eyelids to hide missing corneas.”
Dr. Hiss was also responsible for performing the autopsy of slain American activist Rachel Corrie, who was intentionally run over by an IDF bulldozer. Corrie's family requested that an American official be present at her autopsy, which they were told was the case. However on March 14, during the first round of hearings in the Corries' civil suit, Hiss admitted under oath that he had lied about the presence of an American official during the autopsy of Rachel Corrie. He also conceded to taking "samples" from Corrie's body for "histologist testing" without informing her family.
Zaki Shapira - In 2007, leading Israeli transplant surgeon, Zaki Shapira, was arrested in Turkey on suspicion of involvement in an Organ trafficking ring.
Meir Zamir - In 2010, an organ trafficking ring was uncovered, involving retired Israeli General, Meir Zamir.
Moshe Harel - In 2018, an Israeli ringleader of a global organ trafficking ring was arrested in Cyprus. Moshe Harel exploited victims from poor areas in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Levy Rosenbaum - In 2009, Israeli citizen, Levy Rosenbaum, was arrested in New Jersey for illegally selling human organs obtained in Israel. The case incriminated three New Jersey mayors, two city legislators and five Rabbis.
Skin - In 2014, an Israeli television report included confessions from high-ranking officials that skin was taken from the bodies of dead Palestinians and African workers to treat Israelis, mainly soldiers with burn injuries. The director of the Israeli Skin Bank revealed Israel’s reserve of human skin to reach 17 square meters, with experts claiming it to be the largest in the world.
Vladimir Ovchinsky - In 2023, former Russian senior official, Vladimir Ovchinsky, claimed that the armed forces of Ukraine were delivering human organs harvested from the dead and wounded and transporting them to workshops in countries including Israel.
Vyacheslav Gudin - In 2009, Ukrainian professor Vyacheslav Gudin, claimed that Israel had brought around 25,000 Ukrainian children into the country over the past two years in order to harvest their organs.
Roini Shimshilashvili and Albert Murdakhayev - In 2016, two Israeli men were charged for running an international organ trafficking operation which would match Israelis in need of transplants with foreign donors. The transplants would take place in countries such as Turkey, Bulgaria, Thailand and the Philippines.
Natcare - In 2003, a South African hospital was found to be complicit in a syndicate in which in which poor Brazilian and Romanians, some of whom children, were paid $6K for their kidneys to be transplanted to wealthy Israelis.
Sabyc - In 2009, Romanian authorities arrested 30 Israelis and their local accomplices in a raid on the Sabyc clinic, detaining two Israeli fertility specialists for illegally harvesting eggs for $180-240 from poor local women, then selling them to Jewish couples seeking in vitro fertilization. Under pressure from powerful Jewish groups, both were released from police custody and put under house-arrest inside a hotel in Bucharest.
Haiti - In 2010, a British politician was fired for calling for an inquiry into claims that Israeli volunteer soldiers had been harvesting organs in the aftermath of an earthquake in Haiti.
Cyprus - In 2016, an Israeli was arrested in Cyprus on suspicion of organ trafficking.
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