The condition of some civilian bodies found in mass graves at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, raises suspicions of Israeli organ theft, Palestinian official Mohammed Al-Mughayer said Thursday.
“Some bodies were found with their hands tied, their abdomens open and stitched up in a way that does not conform to the usual methods of sewing up wounds in Gaza, raising suspicions that some organs are missing,” said Mohammed Al-Mughayer, director of procurement at the Civil Protection Agency in Gaza.
He added that the bodies of a man and a mutilated young girl without limbs in hospital gowns were also found, raising suspicions that they were buried alive.
Al-Mughayer also said that “the hands of some bodies were found tied, and the corpses had white robes used by the Israeli army as clothes for detainees at Nasser Hospital, with traces of gunshot wounds on the head, raising suspicions of liquidations in the field.”
“We also found many bodies wrapped in black and blue nylons, which are different from the color of the blankets used in Gaza, which raised suspicions that the aim of the occupation was to raise the temperature of the bodies in order to speed up their decomposition and hide the evidence,” he added.
He believes that all the evidence so far “indicates that the occupiers committed crimes against humanity and carried out executions on the ground in the premises of the hospital.”
“We demand the rapid opening of an international investigation into this issue,” he added.
Palestinian Civil Protection teams have so far recovered 392 bodies from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
The bodies were discovered after the Israeli army withdrew from Khan Younis on April 7, following a four-month ground offensive in the city.
Israel has launched an offensive into the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on October 7. Since then, more than 34,300 Palestinians have been killed in the enclave.
Israel’s war has pushed 85 percent of the population of the Gaza Strip into internal displacement with acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while 60 percent of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the United Nations.
Israel is accused of genocide before the International Court of Justice. An interim ruling in January ordered Tel Aviv to stop the genocidal acts and take measures to ensure humanitarian aid is provided to civilians in Gaza, AA writes.
