Alwaght- Three months have gone since the grand Palestinian Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the Israeli enemy was launched. Regardless of the disaster caused by the Israeli forces in Gaza and the genocide reported by the media outlets that drew backlash from public in the heart of Europe and international rights organizations, the harrowing reports of over 7,000 dead bodies of Palestinians going missing during the Israeli invasion lay bare wide aspects of the Israeli crimes.
In this regard, the press office of the Palestinian government reported on Saturday that since the beginning of war, about 7,000 people have gone missing.
The report suggests that 70 percent of those missing are women and children and since the beginning of war, 30,843 Palestinians were killed and some went missing.
With more than three months have gone since beginning of the daily bombardment of Gaza, now most of the residential buildings are either completely destroyed or damaged and, thus, uninhabitable. In the meantime, the displacement of a large part of the population of Gaza from the northern areas to the south of the Strip has made it impossible to remove the debris and determine the exact number of missing people.
Additionally, striking the infrastructures has led to disconnection of communication and destruction of linking routes, and this adds to the troubles regarding debris removal and rescuing the injured.
Meanwhile, one of the highlighted issues regarding the case of the missing is the revelation of documents about theft of bodies of the dead Palestinians.
Recently, the European Union human rights monitor announced that Israel has a long history of keeping the bodies of Palestinian martyrs and keeps the bodies of at least 145 Palestinians in special morgues and of 255 others in cemeteries. Moreover, Israel buries the bodies of Palestinian martyrs in secret mass graves in certain areas such as closed military zones.
Gaza’s missing people on Israeli organ trafficking menu
Despite the relief crisis in Gaza, this should not be regarded as the only factor behind several thousands of people going missing. There are pieces of evidence proving the Israeli role in human organ trafficking and theft of bodies as Tel Aviv has a long hand in this dirty business. Rights groups report that during the attacks on Shifa Hospital in central Gaza, the Israelis exhumed mass graves and stole the bodies.
The Counterpunch news website writes in an article that the first heart transplant in Israel was performed using heart of a living patient without the knowledge and consent of his family, and his body was refused to be handed over to his family. In 2011, Jerusalem Post reported in an article that 12 members of an Israeli gang targeting Ukrainians for body organs trafficking were arrested.
The long Israeli track record in human organ trafficking is not hidden to anybody. We can refer to 2009 scandal in which the independent Swedish journalist Donald Boström revealed Israeli stealing of Palestinian prisoners by the Israeli military. He traveled to the occupied territories to investigate the case. In a part of his article, he writes that at the same time as launching a campaign centering on organ donation in Israel, many young men in the West Bank and Gaza disappeared. Trade of body organs by the Israeli regime is not limited to within Palestinian borders, but it is an international business for them.
We can not see medical goals behind these brutal actions, rather, they are mainly driven by business benefits. The Irish Times newspaper in a report said that South African police discovered the country’s biggest medical services center that trafficked human organs in association with an Israeli network. South Africa’s Net Care medical center was accused of selling human body organs to wealthy Israelis for business.
Or, for example, we can mention the Court of Justice of European Union’s revelation of the role of Israeli businessman Moshe Harel in the trafficking of human body organs. Harel and his partner were wanted by the Interpol for this criminal case.
In another case, Arab media reported that after seizing control of parts of Syria and Iraq, ISIS terrorist organization massacred families and kidnapped their below-three children and trafficked them to Israeli families without children with the help of Turkish human traffickers. These children in Syria were handed over to Turkish mafia and sold for high prices to Israeli mafia.
These are just a small part of abundant evidence that directly point to the Israeli involvement in body organ trafficking.
It is these actions that make the Israeli regime the main market of trade and trafficking of human body organs, putting it top on the list of giants of this illegal business. By stealing bodies of Palestinians, Tel Aviv breaches the article 33 of Geneva Convention (IV) that highlights the necessity of preventing the theft of corpses and their dismemberment in any war by the warring parties.
