UK’s Corbyn makes ‘blood libel’ claim that Israel removed organs from Gazan women’s bodies

The former leader of the UK’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, is facing accusations of engaging in blood libel after he claimed in a recent video that the IDF has been opening up the bodies of women killed in Gaza and removing their organs.

Corbyn, an independent member of Parliament, claims in the video that he spoke last week with the director of Gaza’s Al Shifa Hospital, who he says told him that the hospital had received a delivery from the IDF of “a large number of boxes, 60 or 70 boxes.”

“They opened the boxes,” Corbyn says, “and each one contained the skull of a Palestinian who had been killed.”

Continuing, he says that the hospital also received a “delivery of bodies of dead women in Gaza that had been opened and some of the organs removed.”

“That is what is happening to the people of Palestine,” Corbyn asserts. “This is the cause of our age.”

There are some who maybe still claim Jeremy Corbyn isn’t an antisemite. But he is one of a number of openly antisemitic Jew haters sitting as MPs.
That is frightening.
Here he is spreading horrendous lies about Israel – lies of murder and organ removal.
These lies are already… pic.twitter.com/ZJduHGbKjP

— Nicole Lampert (@nicolelampert) February 23, 2026

The Corbyn video was first published on Instagram by Wear the Peace, a self-described ethical clothing brand that donates a portion of its profits to various humanitarian causes.

Shifa Hospital, in Gaza City, is on the Hamas-controlled side of the Gaza ceasefire line, meaning IDF troops withdrew from the area in October 2025. While the bodies of Palestinians held by Israel have been returned to Shifa ahead of burial since then, the handovers are facilitated by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the last one was on January 29.

In response to Corbyn, IDF International Spokesperson Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani inquires on X as to “what happened to fact checking before spreading a wild blood libel?”

Pointing out that “IDF soldiers haven’t been anywhere near the Shifa hospital in months,” Shoshani says that “the ’cause of our generation’ is double checking claims and not believing journalists who spread crazy baseless stories.”

“The IDF operates in accordance with international law and strict internal directives that prohibit such conduct,” he adds of the claims. “The return of bodies to Gaza is carried out through international coordination and with the assistance of the Red Cross.”