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Malegaon:
The Palestinian Minister of
Detainees and Ex-detainees Issa Qaraqi’ on Sunday accused Israel
of harvesting parts from the bodies of dead Palestinian martyrs
without the consent of their families, a media report datelined
Ramallah said.
“Israel is the major harvesting and
trading centre in the world", Arab News quoted Qaraqi
during the national day of Palestinian campaign to retrieve
martyrs’ bodies.
The minister said that Israel holds
the remains of Palestinian martyrs “to conceal the crimes it
committed against the martyrs bodies and to punish their
families.”
“Holding of the martyrs’ remains for
many years cats doubts and accusations that Israel assassinated
them after detention or harvested their organs,” the report quoted
Qaraqi.
He added that “Israel is holding the
remains of 338 Arab and Palestinian fighters in the secret Israeli
cemeteries known as the Cemeteries of Numbers.”
Qaraqi' added that the Israeli
authorities holding them in four cemeteries: One on the
Israel-Lebanon-Syria border, two in the Jordan Valley and the
fourth near Tiberias Lake.
On December 2009, the chief Israeli
pathologist and the director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine
at Abu Kabir, Professor Yehuda Hiss, admitted of harvesting parts
from the bodies of dead Palestinians without the consent of their
families, the report went on.
Hiss said that he and doctors who
worked under him took parts from the dead skins, their corneas and
heart valves in the 90’s for transplantation. He also admitted
that the same parts were taken from dead Israelis for the same
purpose.
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