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Warzone Organ Harvesting: Legal and Medical Perspectives in Israel and Gaza

Author(s) Mr. ALEX T Thevarcad
Country India
Abstract Organ Harvesting is one of the alarming practices that take place in the field of medicine in the modern day of profit-driven ambitions. There are several instances where organ trafficking, transplant tourism, and human trafficking have been pointed out as a normal course of action in the medical sector. Although cases such as iatrogenesis for the purpose of organ trafficking are heavily discussed and criticized by Governments and Unions all over the world there is one striking form of organ harvesting that has materialised as a result of war, receiving little to no attention from the media, medical experts, legalists and policy experts.

This Paper focuses on those issues which are faced by the families or relatives of deceased civilians from war-related events. The main focus of the paper will be on how the Israel Defense Force is accused of Harvesting organs from deceased civilians belonging to both Israel and Gaza and how the transplant tourism in Israel which is rapidly rising compounded with the ongoing war is fuelling these illicit activities. The Medical Staff in the IDF despite being at war, should keep in mind that the main duty of a doctor is to serve the public and save lives, thereby dissociating from the aforementioned activities. This paper proceeds to showcase that harvesting organs of dead civilians is not only a war crime but a medical crime as well, and examines the extraordinary circumstance where the intersection of war and medical practice and by extension medical ethics occur.

The controversial history of Israel and organ transplants dates back to its very first heart transplant surgery, where the hospital is accused of performing the extraction of the heart from the donor without the consent of his family. This points to how the rise in transplant tourism is quite controversial in the current scenario especially as accusations of Israel keeping bodies in freezers for a long period and a fair amount of bodies being reported missing are on the rise. It is to be noted that it is not only the civilians from Gaza that fall victim to the actions of the IDF but also the Israeli nationals, highlighting the reality that the medical staff’s consideration or duty of care to its own citizens is being violated and that the patient's rights is a scuffling interest, furthering concern regarding this issue.

This paper shall hence attempt to understand the legal and ethical dynamics at play in the event of war, where the citizens are extraordinarily vulnerable and the authorities possess unchecked power to act against the interest of the citizens. It also analyses the extent of medico-legal principles which expands the doctor’s duty of care beyond the course of treatment till even after the death of the patient and in the handling of the bodies of the deceased. In addition, it will also inspect upon the nature of the contractions that arise out of situations such as war, where the Doctor’s duty of care towards any human is in conflict with the order of authority imposed upon them.
Keywords Organ Harvesting, Warzone, Israel, Gaza, Duty of Care, Patient’s Right.
Field Medical / Pharmacy
Published In Volume 7, Issue 6, November-December 2025
Published On 2025-11-17
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i06.60609
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