Palestinian Boy Saves Lives Of Four Israelis

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By Samer Khuwayera

GAZA - A dead Palestinian boy saved the lives of four Israeli children - including two Jews - after his mother donated his organs, in a new Palestinian humanitarian gesture towards Israelis.

Waleed Ouda fell off his house in the vicinity of Nablus 10 days ago, to be rushed to a nearby hospital - where modest medical capabilities were not enough to save his life.

The 11-year-old boy was then referred to Schneider Children’s Hospital in the Israeli city of Petah Tikva, where death had the final say on Tuesday, July 29.

His family authorized the donation his organs after consulting the Mufti, with a perceived hope for values of life and peace.

"We want Israelis and Americans to know that while the Israeli army kills Palestinians we give life to Israeli children," Murad Aouda, one of Waleed's siblings, said with tears in his eyes.

With a grieve-soaking heart, the Muslim widowed mother said "Allah took my son, and I tried to bring hope to families of other children."

Mohamed Shukri, another family member, told IslamOnline.net the "decision was taken for humanitarian considerations and a noble aim meant to save lives of children and bring happiness to their families."

"It is a message to the Israeli community; we are peace lovers, and not war mongers, " said Shukri, hoping "Israeli occupation forces would stop killing our children."

Waleed’s heart and lungs was transplanted to a 13-year-old girl suffering from cystic fibrosis.

The functioning heart of the girl - an Arab Israeli named Kawthar Zughbi - was then transplanted to another 11-year-old girl from Um Al-Fahm.

One of Waleed’s kidneys and his liver were given to an Israeli child, while the other kidney was to lease life into another.

This is not the first organ donation by a Palestinian to save the lives of Israelis.

In June 2001, a Palestinian father who lost his life to the ongoing Israeli excessive use of force against armless Palestinians decided to donate his dead son's heart to a sick Israeli man.

Igal Cohen had been waiting for four months at Yetl Hashomeer hospital near Tel Aviv for a warm heart to save his life.

Commenting on the donation, a leading Muslim scholar had said it was religiously acceptable for Muslims to donate their body organs to non-Muslims.

"Muslims' donation of human organs as a gift or an act of alms-giving is considered Halal according to the consensus of Muslim Jurists," Sheikh Faysal Mawlawi, Deputy Chairman of the European Council of Fatwa, told IslamOnline.net at the time.

Mawlawi, a respected Muslim scholar, supported his words with the resolution released by the Association of the Islamic Fiqh Council in Mecca in 1985 which permitted transplantation of human organs from one living person to another in order to save a person's life.

Source: IslamOnline.net