Israël geeft orgaandiefstal toe

Israel admits harvesting Palestinian organs
Ian Black, Middle East editor
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 20 December 2009 21.46 GMT

Israel has admitted that pathologists harvested organs from dead Palestinians, and others, without the consent of their families - a practice that it said ended in the 1990s, it emerged at the weekend.

The admission, by the former head of the country's forensic institute, follows a furious row when a Swedish newspaper reported Israel was killing Palestinians in order to use their organs – a charge that Israel denied and called "anti-semitic".