Officials deny media claims of Israeli troops harvesting Palestinians’ organs

ISRAELI and Swedish officials have responded furiously to a Swedish newspaper article that suggested Israeli troops killed Palestinians and harvested their organs.

The article published in Aftonbladet, Sweden’s largest circulation daily, implies a link between those charges and the recent arrest in the US of an American Jew for illicit organ trafficking. Later the reporter told Israel Radio he did not know if the allegations were true.

Headlined “Our sons are plundered for their organs,” the story made news in Israel, where some commentators compared it to medieval libels that Jews killed Christian children for their blood.