Israel just ‘broke’ a world record for kidney donors – but where did all the organs come from? by Charlie Jaay

This week in occupied Jerusalem, more than 1,000 people gathered together, in an attempt to break a new world record – the largest gathering of live kidney donors. The event marked 2,000 kidney donations in Israel…

Dr Munir al-Bursh, general director of Gaza’s Health Ministry, says what is needed is not another record, but an independent international investigation to reveal the truth behind the numbers. He took to social media, saying:

The same authority the withholding Palestinian bodies for years, now boasts unprecedented “donation” figures. Did generosity appear overnight? Or are there silent bodies excluded from the celebration? The occupation has stolen organs from the bodies of Palestinian martyrs.

This is not emotion- it is testimony: Doctor’s accounts, bodies returned incomplete, organs missing without medical, legal, or ethical explanation….We reject turning humanitarian values into propaganda, and we reject building achievements on Palestinian bodies- dead or alive.

According to Euro-Med Monitor human rights organisations, the Israeli occupation has recently made it lawful to hold dead Palestinian’s bodies and steal their organs.

Guinness World Records (GWR) has not accepted World Record submissions from Israel or the occupied territory since November 2023. Herzog described this decision as “flawed”.

GWR rejected the occupation’s initial attempt at breaking the world record.

But after a pressure campaign against it from Zionist organisations around the world, GWR has reversed its decision.