“Israeli” military admits to harvesting organs from dead Palestinians

The "Israeli" military has admitted that the practice of organ harvesting did occur in the 1990s, after a recording surfaced in which Dr. Yehuda Hiss, the chief pathologist of the "Israeli" forensics Institute, described in an interview on "Israeli" channel 2 TV, and in detail, the harvesting of skin, corneas and other organs from Palestinians without their family's consent.

Over the weekend, "Israel's" Channel 2 TV broadcast an interview conducted in 2000 with the then-head of "Israel's" Abu Kabir forensic institute, Dr. Yehuda Hiss, the Associated Press reported.

The doctor said: "We started to harvest corneas ... Whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family".

According to the report, the forensic specialists harvested skin, corneas, heart valves and bones from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, "Israeli" citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers, often without seeking permission from relatives.

Hiss also described how his doctors would cover up the removal of corneas from bodies.

"We'd glue the eyelid shut," he said, adding that "We wouldn't take corneas from families we knew would open the eyelids."

In response to the broadcast, the "Israeli" military confirmed the report in a statement but said, "This activity ended a decade ago and does not happen any longer."

The report was released after an article by Swedish journalist Donald Bostrom, accusing "Israel" of killing Palestinians in order to harvest their organs, caused a huge controversy.