Bioethics Blogs


by Sarah Kiskadden-Bechtel


There is some evidence that Israeli soldiers have harvested organs from captured Palestinians. In November of 2015, the Palestinian Representative to the UN Dr. Riyad Mansour wrote an open letter to the UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon claiming that, under Israeli occupation in East Jerusalem, Palestinians killed and seized by Israeli soldiers were being returned with “missing corneas and other organs.&rdquo;[4] As a counterpoint, Israel&rsquo;s UN Ambassador Danny Danon dismissed these claims ascribing them to “anti-Semitic motives.&rdquo;[5] If there is any truth to Mansour&rsquo;s claims, there is little clarity about which organs were missing, or whether the individuals in question were peaceful citizens or more militant aggressors.
