A Palestinian citizen died at an Israeli checkpoint on his way to a hospital in Nablus on Sunday, after the occupation soldiers barred him from crossing for a kidney dialysis procedure, reported the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA), quoting a medical source in Nablus.
The director of the National Hospital, Anan Masri, told WAFA that the cause of the death was excess potassium in the victim’s blood, which in turn was due to the delay in reaching the hospital.
There have been many reports of Palestinians dying as a result of the siege imposed on their land. Ambulances carrying wounded Intifada activists have also been barred from reaching hospitals.
Ambulance drivers and medical personnel have also been killed or injured during confrontations with Israeli troops
Since the outbreak of the latest Israeli-Palestinian conflict last September, Reuters reports that Palestinians have killed approximately 88 Israelis with weapons ranging from stones and knives to machineguns and car bombs. The latest suicide bombing raises that toll by at least 20. 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 450 Palestinians with weapons ranging from machineguns and tanks to US-made Apache helicopter gunships and F-16s. The most recent Israeli tank attack raises that death toll to 453.
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.
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.” – Allbawaba.com
