Israeli Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
revealed yesterday that the Israeli occupation authorities issues
permits to large pharmaceutical firms to carry out tests on Palestinian
and Arab prisoners, Felesteen.ps reported.
The Hebrew University lecturer also
revealed that the Israeli military firms are testing weapons on
Palestinian children and carry out these tests in the Palestinian
neighbourhoods of occupied Jerusalem.
Speaking in Columbia University in New
York City, Shalhoub-Kevorkian said that she collected the data while
carrying out a research project for the Hebrew University.
“Palestinian spaces are laboratories,” she said. “The invention of products and services of state-sponsored security corporations are fueled by long-term curfews and Palestinian oppression by the Israeli army.”
In her talk, entitled “Disturbing Spaces – Violent Technologies in Palestinian Jerusalem”, the professor added:
“They check for which bombs to use, gas bombs or stink bombs. Whether to put plastic sacks or cloth sacks. To beat us with their rifles or to kick us with boots.”
Last week, Israeli authorities refused to hand over the body of Fares Baroud,
who passed away inside Israeli prisons after suffering from a number of
diseases. His family fear that he could have been used for such tests
and Israel is afraid this could be revealed through forensic
investigations.
5,000 tests on prisoners
In July 1997, Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported remarks for Dalia Itzik,
chairman of a parliamentary committee, acknowledged that the Israeli
Ministry of Health had given pharmaceutical firms permits to test their
new drugs of inmates, noting that 5,000 tests had already been carried
out.
Robrecht Vanderbeeken,
the cultural secretary of Belgium’s ACOD trade union, warned in August
2018 the population of the Gaza Strip is being “starved to death,
poisoned, and children are kidnapped and murdered for their organs.”
This follows previous warnings from Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour
who said the bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces
“were returned with missing corneas and other organs, further confirming
past reports about organ harvesting by the occupying power.”
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