Organ Theft

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. (𓃠)

A 2019 Israeli Supreme Court ruling permits the IDF to bury those they've killed temporarily in off limits “Numbers Cemetery”, where 255 bodies are reported to be held in sub-zero conditions. Laws passed in 2021, allow the police and army to old onto bodies permanently, with 145 bodies being held in Israeli mortuaries. (𓃠) It's most likely that this is so their organs can be harvested for trade on the black market.

Gaza War - In Gaza since 10/7 Euro-Med reported that graves in Jabalia, north Gaza, 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. (𓃠)

Evidence of organ theft was also found from the bodies of those executed at Nasser Hospital by the IDF. (𓃠)

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. (𓃠) 

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. (𓃠) 

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.” (𓃠) Dr. his was also responsible for performing the autopsy, and steeling the Cornea of slain American activist Rachel Corrie, who was intentionally run over by an IDF bulldozer. (𓃠)

Aftonbladet - In 2009 Donald Boström wrote for Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet about his experience in a Palestinian village where young men had been going missing, then turning up in plastic bags while missing organs, with locals accusing the IDF of killing them and harvesting their organs before returning their bodies—himself witnessing his happen to 19 year old Bilal Achmed Ghanan. (𓃠)

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 reached 17 square meters, with experts claiming it to be the largest in the world.   (𓃠)

Vladimir Ovchinsky - In 2023 former Russian senior official, Vladimir Ovchinsky, claimed that the armed forces of Ukraine are delivering human organs harvested from the dead and wounded and transported to workshops in countries including Israel. (𓃠)

Vyacheslav Gudin - In 2009, Ukrainian professor Vyacheslav Gudin, claimed that Israel brought around 25,000 Ukrainian children into the country over the past two years in order to harvest their organs. (𓃠)

Roini Shimshilashvili and Albert Murdakhayev - In 2016, two Israeli men were charged for running an international organ trafficking operation that would match Israelis in need of transplants with foreign donors. The transplants would take place in countries such as Turkey, Bulgaria, Thailand and Philippines. (𓃠) 

Zaki Shapira - In 2007 leading israeli transplant surgeon Zaki Shapira, was arrested in Turkey on suspicion of involvement in an Organ trafficking ring. (𓃠)

Meir Zamir - In 2010 an organ trafficking ring was uncovered involving retired Israeli General Meir Zamir. (𓃠)

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 which children were paid 6000 dollars for their kidneys to be transplanted to wealthy Israelis. (𓃠)

Egg trafficking - Romanian police detained an israeli fertility specialist 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. (𓃠)

Sabyc - In 2009 Romanian authorities arrested 30 Israelis and their local accomplices in a raid on the Sabyc clinic. (𓃠)

Cyprus - In 2016 an Israeli was arrested in Cyprus on suspicion of organ trafficking. (𓃠)

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. (𓃠)

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. (𓃠)

Kidneys - In 2009 CNN aired a segment on the discovery of an organ trafficking ring between Israel and the Ukraine, which prayed upon poor and illiterate Palestinians. (𓃠)