“What does Israel do with these bodies? In her book Over Their Dead Bodies, Meira Weiss—who served as an officer in the Israeli military before pivoting to academia—writes that during the first intifada, the Israeli army gave license to the state’s main forensic institute, called Abu Kabir, to harvest ‘organs from Palestinians using a military regulation that an autopsy must be conducted on every killed Palestinian.’ The policy of performing an autopsy on all Palestinians killed ‘politically’ (i.e., by Israelis) during the first intifada was also a carryover from their colonial patron: the British during the Mandate period required autopsies on all ‘suspicious’ Palestinian deaths. These, back then, were conducted by a British surgeon. During the first intifada, Israel insisted on its doctors conducting them, infrequently permitting international pathologists to participate in high-profile cases. The autopsies, Weiss writes, were ‘accompanied by the harvesting of organs’ and sometimes used for medical training. Later, as with the destruction of medical infrastructure in Gaza, Israel continued to test the limits of what it could do. The answer, it seems, is whatever.”