Report: “68 Palestinian women gave birth on Israeli checkpoints, 33 infants and 4 women died”
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[Cross posted at Daily Kos]
In a not-so-surprising newsreport, the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens Rights (PICCR) reported that Israeli occupation soldiers forced 68 pregnant women to give birth on road blocks after barring them from crossing as they were being transferred to hospitals and medical centers.
Quoting Saed Bannoura’s report on IMEMC:
http://imemc.org/article/47767
Also, the PICCR said that the Israeli procedures complicated the lives of the Palestinian civilians including pregnant women by enforcing harsh conditions and carrying illegal practices at these checkpoints.
Since the beginning of the Al Aqsa Intifada on September 28 2000 until July 2006, 68 pregnant women had to give birth at checkpoints, and that 34 infants and 4 pregnant women died on these checkpoints.
Nothing can justify this but brutality. It is nothing less than a war crime. Imagine the mother and here newborn infant dying due to deliberate, designed, intentional, intended, purposed, and calculated violation on one of the basic human rights.
One would ask: Do Pregnant Women and Infants Have Rights?
- According to Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Article 25.
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
The special care here are road blocks and denial of medical service.
- The Right to Reproductive and Sexual Health:
http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/women/womrepro.htm
The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo and the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing defines reproductive health as:
[...] Implicit in this last condition are the right of men and women to be informed and to have access to safe, effective, affordable and acceptable methods of family planning of their choice, as well as other methods of their choice for regulation of fertility which are not against the law, and the right of access to appropriate health-care services that will enable women to go safely through pregnancy and childbirth and provide couples with the best chance of having a healthy infant (para 72).
The Israeli occupation forces should feel ever so proud of itself for this record!
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7 Comments on “Report: “68 Palestinian women gave birth on Israeli checkpoints, 33 infants and 4 women died””
Might sure does make right! Nothing says “power” like abusing infants and pregnant women. We can see that Israel’s finest are really at the top of their game. Lovely.
The only lives that the Israelis care for are their own.
Remember that they consider the Palestinians less than dogs.
This is the country that the US considers the only democratic country in the Middle East.
The US complains about Iran and Syria and their human rights violations.
Does the US think that the Palestinians are less than dogs?
If they don’t then why do they support Israel?
Just another troubling question running through my head.
I don’t know what to say!!I am just speechless
This is terrible. I will be linking to this article.
Pasta,
That said, the total number of those who died on checkpoints is 150 patients. On top of that 36 medical staff have been killed. Read more:
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2007/02/26/so-who-is-the-terrorist/
Jamal,
Please feel free to spread the word.