Israel has admitted that it sent dozens of Muslim children of Palestinian origin for adoption in European countries in the seventies and eighties of the last century, not only in violation of international covenants, but also of the laws of adoption in force in Israel that continues to conceal the file and its circumstances, Teller Report has revealed.

Judge Ahmed Natour, who served for many years as the head of the country's Supreme Sharia Appeals Court, reviewed the details of the case, as he had received information in 1998 that Israel was sending Palestinian Muslim children for adoption in Europe, especially to Sweden and the Netherlands, the same source added.

Judge Natour revealed, in an interview with Al-Jazeera Net, that Israel continued - even after the signing of the Oslo agreement - to send Muslim children from all the historical regions of Palestine to adopt in Europe, warning that Israel - which is still keeping the details and the scenes of adoption - involved Trafficking in Palestinian children.

Natour emphasized the existence of Islamic arrangements inside the Palestinian territory since the beginning of the nineties of the last century, which are concerned with the issue of adoption according to what is also provided by Israeli law, as they are active in arranging the framework to find foster families to accommodate these children according to Islamic legitimacy, and on the basis of the Islamic sponsorship system stipulated in the United Nations Charter and the Convention on the Rights of the Child From 1989 and after its modernization in 1991. Israel signed it.

By virtue of his religious position as head of the highest Islamic body in Israel and being a professor of Israeli law and justice, Natour sent in 1998 an official letter to the judicial attorney of the government at the time, Elyakim Rubinstein, and revealed his findings, stressing that no Israeli party had consulted him or any Islamic party Country on the subject of adoption.

In his response to Natur's letter, Rubstein reduced information, and he merely replied that sending Muslim children to adopt to European families was due to the absence of Islamic incubators, which Natur refuted.

The Israeli Adoption Law, amended in 1981, prohibits the transfer of children for adoption outside the country. As Natur says, "Israel dealt with the issue of adoption which recognized the conversion of 192 Muslim children to Europe, a case of child trafficking in contravention of the laws of Israeli and international treaties."

In response to a question if Israel was still sending Palestinian children to adopt in Europe, the judge did not rule out the matter, especially since the judicial advisor at the time also admitted that between 1995 and 1998, 22 Muslim children were sent for adoption to Sweden.

The Sharia judge stated that Israel officially recognizes sending 214 Muslim children for adoption to Europe and it does not exclude the possibility of transferring children from all historical regions of Palestine, both the West Bank, Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, outside the country for adoption.

Natour urged all Palestinian activists to exert pressure on the Israeli government and force it to reveal lists of children who have been sent for adoption in Europe, saying the vast majority of those people should be in their thirties of age.

The Israeli government acknowledged that it sent scores of Palestinian children for adoption to European countries, especially to Sweden and the Netherlands, in its response to the urgent interrogation that the Arab Knesset member, Ahmed Tibi, presented to the Ministry of Social Welfare.

Tibi asserted that according to the information received, these children have converted from Islam to Christianity or Judaism, holding the government and various Israeli institutions responsible for their conversion.