Israli army forced to admit to organ stealing
ISRAEL has admitted that in the 1990s, its forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinians, without their families' permission.
The issue emerged with publication of an interview with the then-head of Israel's Abu Kabir forensic institute, Jehuda Hiss. The interview was conducted in 2000 by an American academic, who released it because of a huge controversy last summer over an allegation by a Swedish newspaper that Israel was killing Palestinians to harvest their organs. Israel hotly denied the charge.
Parts of the interview were broadcast on Israel's Channel 2 TV over the weekend. In it, Hiss said: "We started to harvest corneas ... Whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family."
Note that the claim that Israel was killing Palestinians for the organs appears to be untrue, they where simply indiscriminately harvesting organs from all dead without permission, Israeli, Palestinian and international aid workers. Still not good publicity.
Jay