Mother of "exectued" terrorist stabber fears that Israel stole her dead son's organs
Headline: "When a son's burial becomes his parents' goal"
"My last request is to know the burial place of my son, so that I can bury him and read the [Quranic Sura of] Al-Fatiha for his soul, and so that he will be buried according to Islamic Shari'ah law. These are the words of Maisa, mother of Martyr Mustafa Al-Khatib, 17, from Jerusalem, who was executed by the occupation forces next to the Lions' Gate cemetery in occupied Jerusalem last Oct. 12 [2015], while on his way to school in the city. Martyr Al-Khatib's mother fears that her son's organs have been stolen, especially since he was executed and quickly transferred, and that they will be implanted in [another] body after his life was stolen from him. Likewise, she emphasized that the family intends to autopsy the body after its transfer, but Israel refuses [to transfer it], as in similar cases of Martyrs from occupied Jerusalem. Media spokesperson for the National Campaign to Return the Bodies of the Martyrs, Salwa Hammad, stated... that it has been proven that some of the bodies recently transferred had signs of bruises and injuries, but it cannot be determined if they occurred before or after they died as Martyrs. Likewise, it cannot be determined whether organ theft occurred, except by autopsy of the Martyrs' bodies, which the Martyrs' families oppose for religious reasons."
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Mustafa Al-Khatib - 18-year-old Palestinian terrorist who tried to stab a soldier near the Lions' Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem on Oct. 12, 2015 and was shot and killed by Israeli police.
There has been one case of organ theft in Israel's history. In 2001, an Israeli investigative journalist exposed that from the years 1988 to 2000, doctors under chief pathologist Yehuda Hiss at the Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine at times took body parts without permission from relatives, for research and transplants of skin and corneas. Most body parts were taken from Israeli Jews, but the theft also included body parts from Israeli Arabs, Israeli soldiers and Palestinian terrorists. There has been no documented case since then.
"My last request is to know the burial place of my son, so that I can bury him and read the [Quranic Sura of] Al-Fatiha for his soul, and so that he will be buried according to Islamic Shari'ah law. These are the words of Maisa, mother of Martyr Mustafa Al-Khatib, 17, from Jerusalem, who was executed by the occupation forces next to the Lions' Gate cemetery in occupied Jerusalem last Oct. 12 [2015], while on his way to school in the city. Martyr Al-Khatib's mother fears that her son's organs have been stolen, especially since he was executed and quickly transferred, and that they will be implanted in [another] body after his life was stolen from him. Likewise, she emphasized that the family intends to autopsy the body after its transfer, but Israel refuses [to transfer it], as in similar cases of Martyrs from occupied Jerusalem. Media spokesperson for the National Campaign to Return the Bodies of the Martyrs, Salwa Hammad, stated... that it has been proven that some of the bodies recently transferred had signs of bruises and injuries, but it cannot be determined if they occurred before or after they died as Martyrs. Likewise, it cannot be determined whether organ theft occurred, except by autopsy of the Martyrs' bodies, which the Martyrs' families oppose for religious reasons."
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Mustafa Al-Khatib - 18-year-old Palestinian terrorist who tried to stab a soldier near the Lions' Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem on Oct. 12, 2015 and was shot and killed by Israeli police.
There has been one case of organ theft in Israel's history. In 2001, an Israeli investigative journalist exposed that from the years 1988 to 2000, doctors under chief pathologist Yehuda Hiss at the Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine at times took body parts without permission from relatives, for research and transplants of skin and corneas. Most body parts were taken from Israeli Jews, but the theft also included body parts from Israeli Arabs, Israeli soldiers and Palestinian terrorists. There has been no documented case since then.
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