NefeshBarYochai
2024-05-06 15:16:18 UTC
Police in the Turkish city of Adana detained 11 suspects, five Israeli
and two Syrian, on allegations of organ trafficking, the Daily Sabah
reported on 5 May.
The Provincial Directorate of Security's Anti-Smuggling and Border
Gates Branch began investigating after examining the passports of
seven individuals who arrived in Adana from Israel about a month ago
by plane for the purpose of health tourism. The two Syrian nationals,
ages 20 and 21, were found to have fake passports.
Further investigation revealed that Syrian nationals had each agreed
to sell one of their own kidneys to two of the Israeli nationals, ages
68 and 28, for kidney transplants in Adana.
During searches at the suspects' residences, $65,000 and numerous fake
passports were seized.
Israel has long been at the center of what Bloomberg described in 2011
as a sprawling global black market in organs where brokers use
deception, violence, and coercion to buy kidneys from impoverished
people, mainly in underdeveloped countries, and then sell them to
critically ill patients in more-affluent nations.
The financial newspaper added, Many of the black-market kidneys
harvested by these gangs are destined for people who live in Israel.
The organ-trafficking network extends from former Soviet Republics
such as Azerbaijan, Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova to Brazil, the
Philippines, South Africa, and beyond, the Bloomberg investigation
showed.
Accusations of Israeli involvement in organ trafficking also apply to
the occupied Palestinian territories.
In 2009, Sweden's largest daily newspaper, Aftonbladet, reported
testimony that the Israeli army was kidnapping and murdering
Palestinians to harvest their organs.
The report quotes Palestinian claims that young men from the occupied
West Bank and Gaza Strip had been seized by the Israeli army, and
their bodies returned to the families with missing organs.
"'Our sons are used as involuntary organ donors,' relatives of Khaled
from Nablus said to me, as did the mother of Raed from Jenin as well
as the uncles of Machmod and Nafes from Gaza, who all had disappeared
for a few days and returned by night, dead and autopsied," wrote
Donald Bostrom, the author of the report.
Bostrom also cites an incident of alleged organ theft during the the
first Palestinian intifada in 1992. He says that the Israeli army
abducted a young man known for throwing stones at Israeli troops in
the Nablus area. The young man was shot in the chest, both legs, and
the stomach before being taken to a military helicopter, which
transported him to an unknown location.
Five nights later, Bostrom said, the young man's body was returned,
wrapped in green hospital sheets.
Israels Channel 2 TV reported that in the 1990s, specialists at Abu
Kabir Forensic Medicine Institute harvested skin, corneas, heart
valves, and bones from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli
citizens, Palestinians, and foreign workers without permission from
relatives.
The Israeli military confirmed that the practice took place, but
claimed, "This activity ended a decade ago and does not happen any
longer."
Israels assault on Gaza since 7 October has provided further
opportunities for the theft and harvesting of Palestinians organs.
On 30 January, WAFA news agency reported that the Israeli army
returned the bodies of 100 Palestinian civilians it had stolen from
hospitals and cemeteries in various areas in Gaza.
According to medical sources, inspection of some of the bodies showed
that organs were missing from some of them.
On 18 January, the Times of Israel reported that the Israeli army
confirmed reports that its soldiers dug up graves in a Gaza cemetery,
claiming its soldiers were trying to confirm that the bodies of
hostages were not buried there.
https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-organ-trafficking-network-busted-in-turkiye
and two Syrian, on allegations of organ trafficking, the Daily Sabah
reported on 5 May.
The Provincial Directorate of Security's Anti-Smuggling and Border
Gates Branch began investigating after examining the passports of
seven individuals who arrived in Adana from Israel about a month ago
by plane for the purpose of health tourism. The two Syrian nationals,
ages 20 and 21, were found to have fake passports.
Further investigation revealed that Syrian nationals had each agreed
to sell one of their own kidneys to two of the Israeli nationals, ages
68 and 28, for kidney transplants in Adana.
During searches at the suspects' residences, $65,000 and numerous fake
passports were seized.
Israel has long been at the center of what Bloomberg described in 2011
as a sprawling global black market in organs where brokers use
deception, violence, and coercion to buy kidneys from impoverished
people, mainly in underdeveloped countries, and then sell them to
critically ill patients in more-affluent nations.
The financial newspaper added, Many of the black-market kidneys
harvested by these gangs are destined for people who live in Israel.
The organ-trafficking network extends from former Soviet Republics
such as Azerbaijan, Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova to Brazil, the
Philippines, South Africa, and beyond, the Bloomberg investigation
showed.
Accusations of Israeli involvement in organ trafficking also apply to
the occupied Palestinian territories.
In 2009, Sweden's largest daily newspaper, Aftonbladet, reported
testimony that the Israeli army was kidnapping and murdering
Palestinians to harvest their organs.
The report quotes Palestinian claims that young men from the occupied
West Bank and Gaza Strip had been seized by the Israeli army, and
their bodies returned to the families with missing organs.
"'Our sons are used as involuntary organ donors,' relatives of Khaled
from Nablus said to me, as did the mother of Raed from Jenin as well
as the uncles of Machmod and Nafes from Gaza, who all had disappeared
for a few days and returned by night, dead and autopsied," wrote
Donald Bostrom, the author of the report.
Bostrom also cites an incident of alleged organ theft during the the
first Palestinian intifada in 1992. He says that the Israeli army
abducted a young man known for throwing stones at Israeli troops in
the Nablus area. The young man was shot in the chest, both legs, and
the stomach before being taken to a military helicopter, which
transported him to an unknown location.
Five nights later, Bostrom said, the young man's body was returned,
wrapped in green hospital sheets.
Israels Channel 2 TV reported that in the 1990s, specialists at Abu
Kabir Forensic Medicine Institute harvested skin, corneas, heart
valves, and bones from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli
citizens, Palestinians, and foreign workers without permission from
relatives.
The Israeli military confirmed that the practice took place, but
claimed, "This activity ended a decade ago and does not happen any
longer."
Israels assault on Gaza since 7 October has provided further
opportunities for the theft and harvesting of Palestinians organs.
On 30 January, WAFA news agency reported that the Israeli army
returned the bodies of 100 Palestinian civilians it had stolen from
hospitals and cemeteries in various areas in Gaza.
According to medical sources, inspection of some of the bodies showed
that organs were missing from some of them.
On 18 January, the Times of Israel reported that the Israeli army
confirmed reports that its soldiers dug up graves in a Gaza cemetery,
claiming its soldiers were trying to confirm that the bodies of
hostages were not buried there.
https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-organ-trafficking-network-busted-in-turkiye