Sunday, December 20, 2009
In the West Bank, the IDF patrols in al-‘Arub r.c. nr. Hebron late in the evening, firing on stone-throwing youths who confront them, arresting a 14-yr.-old Palestinian boy; conducts late-night arrest raids, house searches in Balata r.c. and nr. Hebron, Jenin. (OCHA, PCHR 12/23)
The IDF admits that in the 1990s government forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies (including those of Palestinians, IDF soldiers, and foreign workers) without permission, but says the practice was stopped “a decade ago.” The admission comes after an U.S. academic released a copy of an interview from 2000 with the head of Israel’s Abu Kabir forensic institute in which the physician admitted the harvesting. (WP, WT 12/21; WJW 12/24)