New Report: Medical Personnel Harmed

http://www.btselem.org/English/Press_Releases/2003/031222.asp

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"According to a new report released today by B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, the IDF violates the right of residents of the Occupied Territories to obtain medical treatment. The security claims cited to justify this violation are dubious.

Dozens of staffed checkpoints and some 600 physical roadblocks have been set up within the West Bank in the framework of Israel's siege policy. These obstacles to movement restricts the access of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to medical treatment. Since September 2000, the number of hospital births has dropped by approximately 50%. In 70% of calls to the Red Crescent, the ambulances are unable to reach the patient's house. 72.3% of the Palestinian population report that they face difficulties in reaching medical clinics and hospitals.

The physical roadblocks make passage for ambulances difficult. Sick people are forced to make their own way across the roadblocks, and then spend hours traveling on winding, makeshift roads. Soldiers at checkpoints within the Occupied Territories frequently delay sick people and medical personnel, and sometimes humiliate or abuse them. In some cases, IDF soldiers have even used Red Crescent ambulances for military purposes."

on the other thread there's a bunch of people pretending like this stuff doesn't happen.

I guess B'Tselem is making it all up too now?

Alternative Report to the State of Israel's First Periodic Report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child

Nice headshot ratio also.

It's a bunch of peace activist "leftist retards" and do-gooders goin hog-wild makin stuff up!! What're we gonna do??

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that seems to work

crazy huh :eyes:

here: http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article2287.shtml