Actually, it “harks back” to the 1990’s, a time that the Israeli military has admitted the practice of harvesting human organs took place.
“There has never been a proven case of organ-harvesting by the IDF in the entire history of Israel.”
This one’s a whopper. See below.
Israel has admitted that it harvested human organs in the 1990’s - from Israeli soldiers, Israeli civilians, and Palestinians. The reason this subject is again rearing it’s ugly head is because in the current conflict Israel holds on to Palestinian dead bodies. It is the only country in the world that has implemented a policy of confiscation of remains. This practice is against international law.
https://forward.com/news/breaking-news/121564/israel-admits-to-harvesting-organs-after-report/ (December 21, 2009)
Israel admitted to harvesting organs from dead bodies in the 1990s.
The admission came after the release of a 2000 interview with Dr. Yehuda Hiss, who was the head of Israel’s L. Greenberg Forensic Institute in Abu Kabir, The Associated Press reported.
Hiss told an American academic in the interview, parts of which were broadcast on Israel’s Channel 2 over the weekend, that the institute used corneas from bodies, including Israeli soldiers, Palestinians and foreign workers. Channel 2’s report said that corneas, heart valves, skin and bones were used from the corpses without families’ permission.
The scholar released the interview following a report in a Swedish newspaper that Israel was harvesting the organs of Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers, an accusation that Israeli officials have denied, AP reported.
The Israel Defense Forces confirmed to Channel 2 that the organs were used, but stressed that the practice stopped a decade ago.
https://antisemitism.org.il/2023/11/28/israel-stealing-organs-from-bodies-in-gaza-alleges-human-rights-group/ (November 28, 2023)
In her book, Over Their Dead Bodies, Israeli doctor Meira Weiss claimed organs were taken from dead Palestinians between 1996 and 2002 and used in medical research at Israeli universities and transplanted into Israeli patients’ bodies.
A controversial Israeli television investigation in 2014 included confessions from high-ranking officials that skin was taken from the bodies of dead Palestinians and African workers to treat Israelis, such as soldiers with burn injuries.
Well, if it occurred then, it’s a fact. They’re stubborn things. But not going on now, I certainly hope.