Israel sues Swedish paper over 'organ theft' article

[TriWooOx]

Quote:Tel Aviv is seeking USD 7.5 million from the Swedish Aftonbladet daily over an article that claims that Israeli troops kill Palestinians to steal their organs and sell them on the black market.

According to a report published by International Middle East Media Center, the Israeli lawsuit against the paper was filed by a lawyer named Guy Ohpir, who filed the lawsuit in a Manhattan Court asking for $7.5 million as compensation.

The lawyer says the paper's article is anti-Semitic, racist and blood-libel and that the article should be considered incitement against the Jews and Israeli soldiers.

Ohpir allegedly filed the lawsuit in New York because the paper is distributed there and because Donald Bostrom who wrote Our sons plundered for their organs made a connection to the recent scandal of organ trade in which New York Rabbis, Jewish figures and officials were involved.

Donald Bostrom says his article about the Israeli army stealing the organs of young Palestinian men it killed in 1992 during the first Palestinian uprising originates from claims made by Palestinian families.

"The article is not accusing the (Israeli) army of snatching organs. The Palestinian families, the Palestine mothers, say that they think or they are sure that someone took organs from their young men," the Swedish freelance journalist told Press TV on Monday.

The article published last week in Aftonbladet sheds light on the case of Bilal Ahmed Ghanem, a 19-year-old Palestinian man, who was shot dead in 1992 by Israeli forces in the West Bank village of Imatin.

Bostrom, who witnessed the man's killing, stated that Ghanem's body was then abducted and returned several days later by the Israeli military with a cut from the stomach to the neck that had been stitched up.

Bilal's brother, who was 15 years old at the time, recounts the shooting incident in the article.

"A number of (Israeli) soldiers ambushed (the Palestinians) and opened fire. The first shot hit (Bilal) in the chest, the second in the leg. We believe that he was still alive after sustaining the two bullet wounds," he said.

The mother, Sadija, told Aftonbladetthat Israeli troopers could have arrested him but instead decided to kill him.

According to the family, the Israeli army demanded NIS 5,000 (about USD1,300) to return the body.

"It was the middle of the night. The soldiers caused an electrical power outage in the entire village. Bilal was returned in a black bag; he had no teeth. The body was stitched from the neck all the way down to the abdomen," the Swedish newspaper quoted the mother as saying.

When asked what happened to the body, the soldiers told Bilal's family that he had undergone an autopsy in Tel Aviv. The family, however, claims that his organs had been stolen.

After the incident, at least 20 Palestinian families told Bostrom that they suspected that the Israeli military had taken the organs of their sons after they had been killed by Israeli forces and their bodies were taken away.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=10461...ionid=351020202

[hilly7]

Funny how they silence any opposition to them doing whatever they want to do. Something is wrong when you can't say anything about a people, even when they are bad people.

[mastermg]

Those fuckers stole my cousin's organs and now they are supresseing and denying it?

[BlindTheAllSeeingEye]

This is truly sickening

[abduLmaria]

Quote:Those fuckers stole my cousin's organs and now they are supresseing and denying it?

it makes me want to make a change to my organ donation card. "do not give any of my organs to anyone who supports Israel."