Israel
has admitted that it harvested organs from the dead bodies of
Palestinians and Israelis in the 1990s, without permission from their
families.
The admission follows the release of an interview with Jehuda Hiss,
the former head of Israel's forensic institute, in which he said that
workers at the institute had harvested skin, corneas, heart valves and
bones from Israelis, Palestinians and foreign workers.
In
the interview, which was conducted in 2000 when Hiss was head of Tel
Aviv's Abu Kabir forensic institute, he said: "We started to harvest
corneas ... Whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was
asked from the family."
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