ANOTHER CHECKPOINT DEATH IN ISRAEL

February 15, 2008 at 8:59 am (Genocide, Occupation, Palestine)

Image ‘Copyleft’ by Carlos Latuff

Israeli soldiers prevented a Palestinian woman from getting an ambulance to take her to a local hospital in the occupied West Bank. The woman had suffered a stroke and needed immediate hospital care, which she was denied. This resulted in her death.

This incident is reported HERE by Reuters….. IS ANYONE READING??
DOES ANYONE CARE??? If you do, YOUR SILENCE IS KILLING THESE PEOPLE!

If you do care, speak out! Speak out NOW before this is repeated again and again.
The zionist occupation is killing the people of Palestine one by one…. IT HAS TO BE STOPPED!

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Palestinians: Ailing woman dies after IDF denies her ambulance
By Reuters
A Palestinian woman who was refused access to an ambulance at an Israel Defense Forces checkpoint died in her village in the West Bank on Thursday, a Palestinian doctor and relatives said.

Local witnesses said the husband of Fawziya Qabb pleaded with soldiers at the Jarushiya checkpoint near the town of Tul Karm to let his wife get to an ambulance waiting to take her to a Palestinian hospital but they ignored him.

An IDF source said the soldiers at the checkpoint were unaware of the woman’s circumstances because her family did not inform the local military coordination office for humanitarian cases of the ambulance’s arrival.

“If we had been made aware of the situation a path could have been cleared for the ambulance through heavy traffic in the area which was caused by a high alert around Tul Karm,” the source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters.

The source said that troops had sealed off the area in the northern West Bank as they feared a possible attack by militants.

Local witnesses and Palestinian security sources said the Israeli heightened state of alert had forced thousands of residents to wait at checkpoints in the pouring rain.

Qabb’s relatives from the village of Deir al-Ghosoon close to Tul Karm said they called the ambulance but soldiers did not allow it through the checkpoint to pick up the 67-year-old.

“I asked the officer to let us cross but he refused,” husband Mahmoud Yousef Qabb said.

Mahmoud said that after failing to persuade the soldiers for 20 minutes, he took his ailing wife back to the village doctor who failed in his efforts to save her life.

“She had suffered a stroke and needed urgent hospital attention. She might have lived if she had reached hospital,” village doctor Abdel-Fattah al-Darak said.

Qabb said his wife, a heart patient, was in good condition after being discharged from hospital in Tul Karm earlier on Thursday.

Human rights groups say they have recorded several cases of Palestinian patients who have died because of delays at IDF checkpoints since the start of the Palestinian uprising in 2000.

Israel says it allows humanitarian cases through the checkpoints.

Palestinians and rights groups say the checkpoints are collective punishment. Israel says they are needed to protect its citizens against Palestinian suicide bombers.

3 Comments

  1. j.c. said,

    February 15, 2008 at 10:29 pm

    ZERO … ZERO … ZERO …

    iSRAEL has THOUSANDs of checkpoints inside of Palestine…
    Palestine has ZERO checkpoints inside of iSRAEL.

    iSRAEL has DEMOLISHED THOUSANDs of Palestinian homes.
    Palestine has Demolished ZERO iSRAELi homes …
    http://www.icahd.org

    iSRAEL has built 33 + ONE WALLs around MOST Palestinian towns and villages… and Gaza.
    Palestine has built ZERO walls around iSRAELi towns and cities.
    http/www.stopthewall.org

    iSRAEL claims the checkpoints are for security ….
    But iSRAEL is the Most heavily armed state in the Middle East besides being a nuclear power. It has the Largest army, navy, air force, advanced missle technology caches, etc.
    Palestine has NO army, navy, air force, missles, etc.

    jEWs CONTROL http://www.jewwatch.com ALL of the media to promote their anti-Arab propaganda… Including newspapers, magazines, book publishers, TV, radio and PR departments in foreign governments
    http://www.jewishtribalreview.org/24media2.htm

    Palestinians own ZERO propaganda media outlets.

    The zIONIST controlled media reports iSRAELi deaths and casualties 13 times MORE often … … than Palestinian deaths…. Which any times, are NOT reported at all.
    http://www.ifamericansknew.org

    So, is it any wonder that Americans have little compassion for Palestinians dying at checkpoints ?
    http://wake-up-america.net

  2. Skulz Fontaine said,

    February 15, 2008 at 11:13 pm

    Au contraire mon J.C., there are many Americans who have much compassion for Palestine and the Palestinians that are imprisoned and die there. Sadly, those Americans are shut out of the public forums and censored my mainstream media and ignored by politicians local, state, and national. Americans speak out about the atrocities suffered by Palestinians at the bloody hands of the fascist Israelis and we are ignored and worse. So what would you have us do? We are not silent we are ignored. We are NOT silent we are shunned. We are NOT SILENT, however we cannot make those who will not hear to hear so, what would you have us do?

  3. j.c. said,

    February 17, 2008 at 4:55 am

    For starters we can ….

    BOYCOTT iSRAEL, iSRAELI GOODs and LEISURE TRAVEL to iSRAEL !!!

    http://www.boycottisraeligoods.org

    http://www.inminds.com

    And we can SPREAD the TRUTH !!!

    http://wake-up-america.net
    http://www.jewwatch.com

    Then JOIN groups that help get out the truth about the Oppression of the Palestinians….

    http://www.palsolidarity.org

    http://www.stopthewall.org

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