They have "issues" everytime a butterfly sneezes!
Posted on 09/22/2005 8:09:37 PM PDT by Alouette
According to a U.N. report, pregnant Palestinian women encountering delays in IDF checkpoints run a high risk of medical complications, death to newborns
Reuters
Sixty-one women have given birth at Israeli checkpoints since 2000 due to delays in getting through the checkpoints, and 36 of their babies died as a result, the United Nations said on Thursday.
The incidents took place between September 2000 and December 2004, the World Health Organization said, relying on statistics from the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Delays in checkpoints
Palestinian women continue to encounter risky delays in 2005, the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees said in the U.N. Report, prepared for the U.N. General Assembly by the Geneva-based U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Fifteen pregnant women in 2004 and eight in 2005 were delayed at checkpoints in the Gaza Strip for one to two and a half hours while being transported to a hospital by a Palestinian Red Crescent Society ambulance, the U.N. Palestinian aid agency UNRWA said.
Of the eight blocked this year, one gave birth in the ambulance while a second, suffering from problems in her six-month pregnancy, aborted in the ambulance, UNRWA said.
'Risky roadside births'
Palestinians' access to medical facilities has been "Significantly impaired" Due to Israeli security procedures at checkpoints and its construction of a barrier in the West Bank aimed at preventing terrorists from infiltrating into Israel, the U.N. Population Fund UNFPA said.
Since 2001, UNFPA said it recorded more than 70 cases of women in labor who were delayed at checkpoints, resulting in "Unattended and risky roadside births, causing maternal as well as newborn deaths," The agency said.
In some cases, pregnant women had to change from one ambulance to another on the other side of a checkpoint when Israeli security forces would not let the ambulance through, the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said.
Increase in home deliveries
A growing number of Palestinian women have responded by having Caesarean deliveries or giving birth at home rather than try to travel to a medical facility, increasing the risk of complications and maternal or infant death, UNFPA and Palestinian health authorities said.
There were 8 percent more home deliveries in the West Bank and 0.5 percent more in Gaza this year, according to statistics from the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Israel and the Palestinian Authority were asked to provide information for the report but did not respond, the report said.
Pretty rich coming from the people who aided and abetted Saddamn's mass murder...
Note to Palis, you have a country. Maybe you should stop blowing up innocent people and find doctors. Why should Israel risk having her citizens blown up in order to help people that have killed thousands of Israelis? I recall more than one suicide bombed disquised as a pregnant woman and also pregnant women in a Red Crescent ambulance with bombs aboard as well. Why should Palis care...people who strap bombs on children have no interest in protecting children.
who cares?
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Perhaps the IDF should just wave through any woman with a giant bulge on her abdomen. /sarcasm
Maybe if the ambulances weren't used to transport homicide bombers, they might get through more often.
"Do Palestinians get to claim a "right of return" if their child is born in Israel? Just wondering."
Thank goodness, no.
Mine was off when I saw "Reuters."
Yeah, we believe this.
Sheesh.
"According to a U.N. report, pregnant Palestinian women encountering delays in IDF checkpoints run a high risk of medical complications, death to newborns"
Simple solution to this is to prohibit pregnant women from crossing checkpoints.
Are these the same people who said that like a zillion Iraqi babies died because of the US sanctions again Iraq before Saddam was kicked out?
Thanks for the reply. I guess Israel is smarter than the U.S. on babies born on their soil. As is most every other nation in the world, IIRC.
Israeli babies die when Palestinian women stand next to them and blow up. That's a headline you'll never see.
Why would they let an infidel aid in the birth of their next suicide bomber?
A fake pregnant belly on a woman is a GREAT place to hide some Semtex.
Pretty much sums up my feeling on the whole area of Middle East policy since 1948.
Pretty much sums up my feeling on the whole area of Middle East policy since 1948.
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