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Media sources (including Israeli media sources) have confirmed the use of Israeli state-sponsored pharmaceutical testing of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. It has also been revealed that Israeli military firms are testing weapons on Palestinian children and carry out these tests in the Palestinian neighbourhoods of occupied Jerusalem. PAJU has previously made reference to Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s accusation that Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian occupied territories and the development of illegal Israeli settlements would result in a system of Judeo-Nazism.

PAJU adds to this weekly news item below information drawn from the Jewish Virtual Library concerning pharmaceutical testing done on inmates of the Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War. The parallel between the pharmaceutical testing done in the Nazi concentration camps and that done in Israeli prisons is clear enough.

Following this, at the bottom of the page, are references to legal definitions of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Note that there is no statute of limitations for war crimes or crimes against humanity, neither for perpetrators of those crimes nor for those who aid and abet the perpetrators of the aforesaid crimes.

Israel pharmaceutical firms test medicines on Palestinian prisoners

Israeli Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian revealed yesterday that the Israeli occupation authorities issue permits to large pharmaceutical firms to carry out tests on Palestinian and Arab prisoners, Felesteen.ps eported.

The Times of Israel also reported that in a recording from the event 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.”

Remote control repression: Israel tested its latest weapons against the Great March of Return

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 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.”

Adapted from: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190220-israel-pharmaceutical-firms-test-medicines-on-palestinian-prisoners/?fbclid=IwAR1zFwyUTeiy7Jj9DznkmelVfTm3fDAuPH8NLgiCds0y2LjX8xBIjJfPRLY

!***See:https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/background-and-overview-of-nazi-medical-experiments

Nazi Medical Experiments: Background and Overview (Jewish Virtual Library)

Pharmaceutical Testing

At other concentration camps such as Sachsenhausen, Dachau, Natzweiler, Buchenwald and Neuengamme, pharmaceutical compounds were tested to fight contagious diseases such as malaria, typhus, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, yellow fever, and infectious hepatitis. Sulfa drugs, only recently discovered, were tested at the Ravensbrueck camp. Elsewhere, prisoners were subjected to gas poisoning to test antidotes. In Ravensbruck new methods were explored to deal with fractures and war wounds. Prisoners’ legs were broken or amputated; transplants were attempted.

The physicians enjoyed complete freedom to act without regard to basic medical ethics, without any consideration for the health of the patient.

There were some 70 such « medical-research » programs at Nazi concentration camps involving some 7,000 prisoners and some 200 physicians, who worked directly in the concentration camps, but they were not alone. They maintained close professional and research contacts with leading medical institutions and universities and an ongoing relationship with research laboratories. Indeed, the German medical establishment was involved in this work.

• War Crime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime

• Crimes Against Humanity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity

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