BY: IBRAHIM Jaafar
Head of High Follow up Committee for Arabs in Israel Mohammad Baraka has warned that Palestinians held in Israeli jails are being used as animal sample for new medical trials, Arab48 reported on Tuesday.
“This is a clear war against humanity,” Baraka said.
In February, Israeli Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian revealed that the Israeli occupation authorities had issued permits to large pharmaceutical firms to carry out tests on Palestinian and Arab prisoners.
The Times of Israel also reported that in a recording, 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.
This evil practice of Israel is not new, infact, it's on the rise. 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 on inmates, noting that 5,000 tests had already been carried out.
The world must realize that while bioterrorism is being done by Israelis on innocent citizens of Palestine, the effects may be on the Palestinians today, but the resulting outcome can be like the Arab saying "I was killed the day I allowed the white bull to be killed".