Inside the shadow economy of organ trafficking linked to Israel

Boris Wolfman, a Zionist-Ukrainian, was arrested in Russia in early October. He is accused of designing a criminal scheme for organ trafficking.

His arrest, which was completely ignored by Western media, raises the possibility that justice may finally be served in several major organ trafficking scandals dating back many years. Wolfman’s detention also highlights the underexamined role of the Zionist regime as a global hub for illegal organ harvesting and trade. The genocide in Gaza may have significantly facilitated this corrupt industry.

According to Al-Mayadeen, since October 7, credible accusations of illegal organ removal from Palestinians killed by Zionist occupation forces have been widely reported.

The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor released a report in November 2023 showing how Zionist forces had abducted dozens of bodies from major hospitals in Gaza, to the point where mass graves in hospital courtyards had been dug and targeted due to the overwhelming number of massacred civilians. While some bodies were later returned to the Red Cross, many were withheld and remain undisclosed.

Euro-Med documented that a significant number of these bodies showed clear signs of organ removal—including missing cochleae, corneas, hearts, kidneys, and livers. Since then, the Zionist regime has occasionally returned small numbers of bodies to their families, usually in such a decomposed state that identification and professional autopsy—and determining whether organs were stolen—becomes difficult or impossible. In some cases, the bodies were fully frozen, making medical examination highly complicated and likely obscuring organ theft.

The Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 mandates respect for the dignity of deceased civilians and explicitly prohibits looting or mutilation of bodies during wartime.

However, the Zionist regime has not only refused to ratify the convention, but openly rejects its applicability to Gaza and the West Bank. Moreover, local laws and unique legal procedures in Tel Aviv allow occupation officials to withhold the bodies of Palestinians killed by their forces.

Their bodies can be used as horrific bargaining tools—or have their organs removed without accountability.

For decades, the Zionist regime has been at the center of the international illegal organ trade. While Palestinians have long warned that the organs of their martyred relatives were being stolen by Tel Aviv, this practice was not officially acknowledged until the early 2000s.

Yehuda Hiss, head of Israel’s Abu Kabir Institute, openly bragged about removing skin, bones, and other human materials during autopsies. He was never punished—suggesting that his horrific activities were approved by Zionist authorities.

This interpretation is strongly supported by the work of Mira Weiss, a former employee of the institute, in her 2014 book “Over Their Dead Bodies.” She revealed that during the First Intifada (1987–1993), Zionist officials ordered the center to remove organs from Palestinian corpses, using a military law requiring autopsies on all Palestinians killed by occupation forces.

This provided free access to harvest whatever they wanted. Senior institute staff later lamented those years as the “good old days,” when they could freely and continually extract organs.

Al-Mayadeen added that the catastrophic death toll of the Gaza genocide may mark the beginning of a new era of such “good old days” for the Zionist organ trade.

Wolfman’s arrest and the collapse of the operations he oversaw are unlikely to disrupt Tel Aviv’s activities in this field. He was only one actor in the global network of Zionist traffickers. His removal will simply result in replacement. After all, the profits are enormous and the risks suspiciously low.

Organ brokerage and trafficking

In 2015, the European Parliament released a major report on organ trafficking. Its introduction noted that before 2000, the problem was mostly limited to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.

However, the report emphasized that since the start of the new millennium, organ trafficking has expanded globally—largely driven by Zionist doctors. The document detailed several major trafficking cases.

In all but one case, the evidence directly led back to the Zionist regime. A map of global organ trade routes identified Tel Aviv as the core, with Zionist settlers serving as both major customers and leaders of gangs supplying organs to foreign buyers.

One cited case involved a South African hospital exposed in 2003 after performing over 100 illegal transplants for foreign patients—most of them Zionist settlers.

Local authorities discovered a criminal network led by Ilan Perry, a well-connected Zionist, who recruited impoverished people from Brazil, Romania, and elsewhere desperate enough to sell their organs for small sums—and transported them to South Africa. Patients paid huge fees for the transplants. Perry and his associates pocketed most of the money, giving the remainder to poor donors and hospital staff to keep the crimes quiet.

Another case was the Medikus Clinic scandal in Pristina, Kosovo. In October 2008, a young Turkish man collapsed at the airport. When a fresh surgical scar was discovered on his abdomen, he explained that his kidney had been removed at the clinic, prompting a police raid. Authorities had already noticed that many foreigners were arriving in Pristina with invitation letters for heart treatment—letters the clinic was not known to issue.

Investigations revealed that Moshe Harel, a Zionist doctor known as the world’s most notorious organ trafficker, was responsible for bringing in wealthy clients who paid over $100,000 for transplants. The surgeries were mostly performed by local Albanian-Kosovar medical staff.

As the EU report noted, donors were required to sign documents—written in Albanian and not translated—stating that the donation was voluntary and to a relative or out of altruism. Though some were promised up to $30,000, many received only a fraction—or nothing at all. Those who received part of the payment were often told they would get the rest only if they brought in additional donors.

The enormous profits of organ trafficking

Boris Wolfman was also central to the Medikus case. Although wanted in multiple jurisdictions and under a Red Notice from Interpol, he remained at large for years until his recent deportation to Russia.

Shockingly, during this time he launched yet another organ trafficking operation—exploiting vulnerable Kenyans for small payments and selling their kidneys and other organs to wealthy buyers from Germany and the Zionist regime for up to $200,000 each. As in Kosovo, donors were not paid the promised sums and were denied proper medical aftercare.