Refugees face organ theft in the Sinai

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Bedouin smugglers involved in people trafficking are also believed to be stealing organs from refugees who are unable to pay their demands for large amounts of cash to take them into Israel.

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Saw this today. Thought it was interesting that a story should pop up pointing at Bedouin since it was just a few days ago that the US had it's first conviction for organ trafficking. Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, referred to as variously a Brooklyn man, a New York man or by Bloomberg, an Israeli man who arranged for the sale of organs through contacts in Israel. This isn't too surprising since Israel has been a hot spot for organ trafficking for a while. (Another one is Kosovo). If there is a good market perhaps it's not surprising to see the Bedouin trying to cash in on that.

What does surprise me is that African refugees are trying to get smuggled into Israel. It's even harder to be black in Israel than in the US and they kick you out pretty quick when they see you - not hard to spot when you're colour coded.
 
According to wikipedia on organ theft, allegations have been made against Kosovo as you said, but investigations have turned up little. Israel admits to harvesting organs from corpses, but the practice has ended about a decade ago. China seems to be the most active place for organ theft. I would suspect Ukraine to be a close second.
 
According to wikipedia on organ theft, allegations have been made against Kosovo as you said, but investigations have turned up little
Camp Bondsteel, um, I mean "Kosovo" is run by what used to be organized crime. Groups like that are often used by imperialistic countries because organized crime is organized, ambitious and has a grudge against the local government. They make good allies (at least temporarily). They have been involved in all sorts of hanky panky including running weapons in ans out of Afghanistan and Libya and wherever they are needed. They are also a conduit for heroin out of Afghanistan. This is strategically useful and conveniently nothing to do with the US government. Of course, if they actually didn't like what was going on there are 7000 US troops in the country that could round up the government in 12 hours or less.
Israel admits to harvesting organs from corpses, but the practice has ended about a decade ago.
But they also harvest organs from living people (though the operations in the case I cited were done in the US). But harvesting them yourself or merely handling the business are only two sides of one coin. If the Bedouin are taking organs then Israel is a good place to sell them.
China seems to be the most active place for organ theft. I would suspect Ukraine to be a close second.
China is likely in the business. Various spots in South America have had spates of organ trading. A lot of third worlders have suffered from organ traders but the money is made in the conduits. Some slum Filipino selling a kidney might get 800 bucks and be dead in a week anyway from infection, while a recipient can pay a hundred thousand and up.
 
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