Israeli security personnel stand guard at the spot along a street that on one side is a Jewish neighbourhood and the other is the outskirts of Jabel Mukabar, a Palestinian neighbourhood in Jerusalem October 19, 2015.
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The letter said that the bodies were returned missing corneas and other organs.
Danon responded on Wednesday with a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon demanding that Ban condemn what Danon described as Mansour’s open anti-Semitism.
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon, in a response to Ban, wrote in a letter that “the Palestinian representative’s anti-Semitic face has been revealed”.
Allegations that Israel harvested Palestinian organs first appeared in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet in 2009, and in Time magazine in 2014, which later issued a retraction, according to The Times of Israel.
Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal called on all Palestinian groups Wednesday to form a unified leadership of the current wave of violence against Israel, which he called an intifada, or uprising.
The Palestinians whom Mansour was referring to were killed amid tensions in the occupied territories, which have dramatically escalated in recent weeks. Since September 14, 11 Israeli civilians have been killed and 73 injured by knives, guns, cars, rocks, and Molotov cocktails, showing that Palestinians are not targeting “a well-trained army”.
Israeli soldiers shot dead on Thursday a Palestinian young man south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Palestinian medics and Israeli security sources said.
The Palestinian envoy further protested Israel’s “persistent aggression against the Palestinian people” over the past month and the regime’s “insistence on use of violent force and oppressive measures”.
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Israel has accused Palestinian officials of inciting the violence by spreading what it says are false allegations.
