An ailing 55-year-old Palestinian woman died Monday at an Israeli checkpoint to the north of the West Bank city of Ramallah, when soldiers stopped the car that was rushing her to the hospital for over two hours, reported the Palestinian news agency (WAFA).
The family of Mariam Tamimi told the agency that although they told the occupation forces that they had an emergency, “they deliberately delayed her with no justification,” until she died.
According to the agency, Tamimi’s death was the second of its kind “in a few hours.” Another Palestinian woman, 64-year-old Fatima Shrafi, died in Rafah under identical circumstances, said WAFA.
Since the outbreak of the latest Israeli-Palestinian conflict last September, CNN reports that Palestinians have killed over 112 Israelis with weapons ranging from stones and knives to machineguns and car bombs. Israeli military sources have reported well over 600 injuries to Israelis of Jewish descent.
In the same time period, according to CNN, Israeli soldiers and armed Jewish settlers have killed 13 Arab Israelis and over 458 Palestinians with weapons ranging from machineguns and tanks to US-made Apache helicopter gunships and F-16s.
According to Amnesty International, nearly 100 of the Palestinians killed were children.
In addition, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society has reported over 14,000 Palestinians wounded, and over 520 killed.
Jewish author Noam Chomsky, who according to a New York Times Book Review article is “arguably the most important intellectual alive,” has been quoted as saying: “State terrorism is an extreme form of terrorism, generally much worse than individual terrorism because it has the resources of a state behind it.” – Albawaba.com
