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BRIEF, PALESTINE
Women and infants dying at checkpoints in Palestine


13 April 2007


According to a report by the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens Rights, between September 2000 (the beginning of the Al Aqsa Intifada) and July 2006, 68 pregnant women were forced to give birth at Israeli checkpoints in the Occupied Territories after Israeli soldiers barred them from crossing the road blocks to access hospitals and medical centres. Thirty-four infants and four pregnant women died at these checkpoints.


From: International News, Green Left Weekly issue #706 18 April 2007.
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