{"id":317086,"date":"2025-10-21T06:20:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=317086"},"modified":"2025-10-23T05:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:30:38","slug":"gaza-officials-formally-accuse-israel-of-organ-theft-demand-international-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=317086","title":{"rendered":"Gaza officials formally accuse Israel of organ theft, demand international probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Cradle \u2013 Oct 18, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Gaza\u2019s Government Media Office formally <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dropsitenews\/status\/1979236382460551583?s=46\">accused<\/a> Israel on 17 October of stealing organs from Palestinians after Israel returned 120 mutilated bodies following the recent ceasefire, including some who had been tortured to death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe formally accuse the Israeli army of stealing organs from the martyrs,\u201d stated Dr. Ismail al-Thawabta, Director General of the Media Office, while demanding an international investigation into Israel&#8217;s \u201ctorture, mutilation, and organ theft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 120 bodies \u201carrived in extremely poor and distressing condition,\u201d including blindfolded, bound, crushed under tanks, and missing corneas, livers, and limbs, Thawabta stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Israeli occupation executed many of them in cold blood. A large number were found blindfolded, with their hands and feet bound, and others showed signs of hanging or close-range gunfire,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also found bodies showing clear evidence of severe torture until death.\u201d<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\uf6a8BREAKING | Clear evidence points to organ theft from the bodies of 120 Palestinian hostages returned by the Israeli occupation as part of the ceasefire deal. Dr. Ismail Al-Thawabteh, Director General of Government Media in Gaza, confirmed that many of the martyrs\u2019 bodies handed\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B5rpf7qPpL\">pic.twitter.com\/B5rpf7qPpL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Translating Falasteen (Palestine) (@translatingpal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/translatingpal\/status\/1979264633052570105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thawabta explained that Israeli authorities refused to provide the names of the victims, making it extremely difficult for authorities in Gaza to identify them.<\/p>\n<p>After the release of the bodies, families of missing Palestinians rushed to hospitals\u2014especially Nasser Hospital\u2014trying to see if their relatives were among them. But many remain unidentified and will have to be buried anonymously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe health system in Gaza is almost completely collapsed. We lack the equipment for DNA testing and forensic analysis. Some families could only identify their loved ones from personal belongings or clothing. If we cannot identify the rest, we will be forced, sadly, to document and bury them anonymously, to preserve human dignity,\u201d Thawabta added.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Media Office\u2019s data, 9,500 Palestinians remain missing, most of them trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEntire families\u2014father, mother, children\u2014remain buried for nearly two years,\u201d the Media Office director stated.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies are difficult to locate due to the sheer amount of destruction Israeli bombing has caused, and because Israel has destroyed almost all of Gaza\u2019s heavy machinery, bulldozers, and excavators, preventing rescue operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven now, despite the ceasefire, all crossings remain closed, and Israel blocks the entry of rescue machinery. This is a humanitarian catastrophe unprecedented in modern history\u2014over 3,000 families completely wiped out, another 6,000 families killed with only one survivor,\u201d Thawabta added.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\uf6a8BREAKING | Israeli tanks ran over bodies of Palestinian hostages. Forensic teams in Gaza documented clear tank track imprints on returned Palestinian martyrs, alongside corpses missing heads, limbs, eyes, and internal organs, and others showing signs of being crushed under\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HjhQmu15To\">pic.twitter.com\/HjhQmu15To<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Translating Falasteen (Palestine) (@translatingpal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/translatingpal\/status\/1979271388767666669?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Authorities in Gaza have <a href=\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2025\/02\/a-brief-history-of-israels-theft-and-trafficking-of-palestinian-organs\/\">reported<\/a> previous instances of organ theft during the genocide.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2024, Israeli forces returned to Khan Yunis the decomposed bodies of\u00a089 Palestinians in a shipping container.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities were unable to identify the bodies and were forced to bury them in separate body bags in a single large grave near Nasser Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli forces were also seen taking dozens of bodies from graves and the streets surrounding Al-Shifa Medical Complex and the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors found evidence of organ theft, including missing cochleas and corneas, as well as other vital organs like livers, kidneys, and hearts.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has a long history of stealing the organs of Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>In 1990,\u00a0Dr. Hatem Abu Ghazaleh, former chief health official for the West Bank, <a href=\"https:\/\/alisonweir.technav.us\/journal\/2013\/09\/25\/my-articles-on-israeli-organ-trafficking\/\">stated<\/a> that during the first intifada, &#8220;organs, especially eyes and kidneys, were removed from the bodies during the first year or year and a half.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Swedish journalist\u00a0Donald Bostrom\u00a0published an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aftonbladet.se\/kultur\/a\/Rx1n5A\/our-sons-are-plundered-of-their-organs\">article<\/a> documenting the theft of organs from deceased Palestinians brought to the Israeli National Institute of Forensic Medicine (Abu Kabir) between the First Intifada and the 2012 war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Abu Kabir director and chief pathologist Dr. Yehuda Hiss admitted in a\u00a0July 2000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2010\/10\/25\/body-parts-and-bio-piracy\/\">interview<\/a> with US academic Nancy Scheper-Hughes that the institute was secretly taking skin, bones, cardiac valves, corneas, and other human materials from bodies during autopsies.<\/p>\n<p>He described removing not only corneas but whole eyeballs from the bodies of the dead, which would be returned to their families with their eyelids glued shut.<\/p>\n<p>In 1996,\u00a0Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh, an influential leader within the fundamentalist Jewish group, Chabad-Lubavitch, <a href=\"https:\/\/acjna.org\/acjna\/articles_detail.aspx?id=34\">claimed<\/a> that Judaism permits organ theft from non-Jews on the basis that Jewish lives are more important than non-Jewish lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a Jew needs a liver,\u201d he asked, \u201ccan you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him? The Torah would probably permit that. Jewish life has infinite value. There is something infinitely more holy and unique about Jewish life than non-Jewish life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecradle.co\/articles-id\/33754\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of Palestinian bodies returned by Israeli authorities were &#8216;blindfolded, bound, crushed under tanks, and missing corneas, livers, and limbs,&#8217; officials revealed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":317087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317088,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317086\/revisions\/317088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/317087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}