Israelis condemned for barring patients

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Aljazeera.Net



An Israeli human rights group has condemned the army for disregarding Palestinian lives by stopping ambulances leaving or entering the West Bank town of Nablus.

"Soldiers prevented passage of ambulances, while threatening the staff and patients with their rifles," said Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel) in a statement on Sunday.

The organisation highlighted the case of a Palestinian woman, nine months pregnant, who was on her way to hospital in an ambulance when she was stopped by Israeli troops at a checkpoint.

“She was held there for several hours,” said Miri Weingarten of PHR-Israel. “Eventually, she had to go on foot and walked up the road until another ambulance from outside could meet her.”