(JTA) – The Palestinian Authority’s representative to the United Nations accused Israel of harvesting the organs of Palestinians killed while attacking Israelis. Israel’s U.N. envoy responded by calling the P.A.’s accusation a “blood libel.” “A medical examination conducted on bodies of Palestinians returned after they were killed by the occupying power found that they were missing organs,” Riyad Mansour, the Palestinians’ permanent observer to the world body, said in an official complaint to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Nov. 4, Ynet reported. The letter said the bodies were returned missing corneas and other organs. Israel’s U.N. ambassador, Danny Danon, in a response to Ban wrote that “the Palestinian representative’s antisemitic face has been revealed.”

In 2009, the Swedish daily Aftonbladet sparked an angry reaction from Israeli officials and Jewish leaders with the publication of an unverified account that Israeli troops harvested organs from Palestinians who died in custody. Israel denied the accusation. In 2014, Time magazine cited the report in a two-minute video about the Israel Defense Forces on its website. It later retracted the allegation..