The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations (UN)
says the Tel Aviv regime is harvesting the organs of Palestinians killed in
clashes with Israeli forces in the occupied territories.
Riyad Mansour said in a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday that the bodies of the Palestinians killed by Israeli forces are “returned with missing corneas and other organs, further confirming past reports about organ harvesting by the occupying power.”
“A medical examination conducted on bodies of
Palestinians returned after they were killed by the occupying power found that
they were missing organs,” Mansour wrote in the letter.
The Palestinian envoy further protested Israel’s
“persistent aggression against the Palestinian people” over the past month and
the regime’s “insistence on use of violent force and oppressive measures.”
The issue of organ theft by Israel was first brought
to the fore in a report published by Sweden’s most highly-circulated daily Aftonbladet in
2009.
US daily The New York Times also said
in an August 2014 report that transplant brokers in Israel have pocketed
enormous sums of money. Based on the Times analysis of major
organ trafficking cases since 2000, Israelis have played a ‘disproportionate
role’ in organ trafficking.
The Palestinians whom Mansour was referring to were
killed amid tensions in the occupied territories, which have dramatically
escalated in recent weeks.
This file photo shows an Israeli soldier checking the
identity card of a Palestinian woman crossing the Kalandia checkpoint between
al-Quds (Jerusalem) and the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. (Photo by AP)
The Israeli regime’s imposition of restrictions in
August on the entry of Palestinian worshipers to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in
East al-Quds (Jerusalem) has become the lightning rod for the surge of recent
confrontations.
According to the latest figures by the Palestinian
Health Ministry, at least 74 Palestinians have lost their lives at the hands of
Israeli forces since the beginning of October. At least 11 Israelis have also
been killed during that period.
The bodies of the Palestinian victims are most often
held in Israeli custody for long periods of time before they are returned to
relatives.
‘Support for Israel in US to be affected’
Meanwhile, William Spring, a human rights activist
from London said in an interview with Press TV on Thursday that the revelation
will “deal a terrible blow” Israel, particularly among its American supporters.
Referring to the supporters of Israel in the US as
“Christian-Zionists,” the commentator said that despite all their enthusiasm
for the Israeli regime, they are against such measures as experiments on
fetuses, abortion or harvesting organs.
“I can see a great defection and a great falling away
of Christian-Zionists, who have supported Israel up to the now,” he said.
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