By: IBRAHIM Jaafar
Reports indicated that Israeli pharmaceutical firms are using Palestinian and Arab captives as specimens for their newly developed vaccines and that the illegal state military is also using the Palestinian neighborhood for weaponry testing.
A Hebrew University Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian revealed that the Israeli occupation authorities issues permits to large pharmaceutical firms to carry out tests on Palestinian and Arab prisoners, Felesteen.ps reported.
The Israeli lecturer also revealed in a recording reported by The Times of Israel that the Israeli military firms are testing weapons on Palestinian children and carry out these tests in the Palestinian neighborhoods of occupied Jerusalem.
Shalhoub-Kevorkian, speaking in Columbia University in New York City, said that she collected the data while carrying out a research project for the Hebrew University.
In her talk, entitled “ Disturbing Spaces – Violent Technologies in Palestinian Jerusalem”, the professor stated: “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.”
“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.”
Israeli authorities refused last week to hand over the body of Fares Baroud, who passed away inside Israeli prisons after suffering from a number of diseases. His family feared that he could have been used for such tests and Israel is afraid this could be revealed through forensic investigations.
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.
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.”
Israel had committed more atrocities on Palestinians. Not only is she engaging in the use of bioterrorism, secretly committing the wrong or fired live ammunition into crowds of protesters, but reports have also surfaced about the use of “butterfly bullets ”. Medics on the ground say Israeli forces are shooting at demonstrators with a new type of round — never seen before — known as the ‘butterfly bullet’, which explodes upon impact, pulverizing tissue, arteries and bone, while causing severe internal injuries.
It is believed that it was these “butterfly bullets” that killed Palestinian journalists Yaser Murtaja and Ahmed Abu-Hussein , who were shot while reporting from Gaza despite being clearly marked as Press. The pair were shot in the abdomen which, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry spokesperson Ashraf Al-Qedra, resulted in “all of their internal organs [being] totally destroyed, pulverized.” He added that the bullets are the deadliest that the Israeli army has ever used.
Darryl Li of the University of Chicago referred to Gaza as a “laboratory”. According to Li, Gaza is “a space where Israel tests and refines various techniques of management, continuously experimenting in search of an optimal balance between maximum control over the territory and minimum responsibility for its non-Jewish population.” He quoted Amos Yadlin, then head of Israeli military intelligence, as saying: “Our vision of air control zeroes in on the notion of control. We’re looking at how you control a city or a territory from the air when it’s no longer legitimate to hold or occupy that territory on the ground.”