Israeli soldiers accused of stealing body parts
The Israeli Foreign Ministry has been angered by a Swedish report that said IDF soldiers abducted Palestinians to steal their organs
Sweden's largest circulation daily, Aftonbladet, raised the issue, by quoting Palestinians saying: "They plunder the organs of our sons."
In the story, which was accompanied by photographs, the Palestinians claimed IDF soldiers had kidnapped their sons to steal body parts.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry issued an immediate denial, calling the story "a grotesque libel."
A spokesman, saying the article was a shame to freedom of expression, claimed the demonising piece had once again encouraged hate crimes against Jews.
The article made reference to the recent arrests in New Jersey of several prominent US Jews for a number of alleged crimes, including brokering the sale of organs for transplant.
It quoted parents and relatives of Palestinian men who had supposedly been kidnapped and found dead, with organs removed.
The story also cited allegations of similar instances of organ-snatching in the West Bank in 1992, during Palestinian protests against the continued Israeli occupation.
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