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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Palestinian child wounded after Israeli soldiers pushed her mother while carrying her

IMEMC- The Research and Documentation Unit at the Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights reported that a 4-year-old child was wounded two weeks ago after Israeli soldiers pushed her mother while carrying her on her way to a Jerusalem hospital.

...Randa Taha, a bearer of West Bank identity card, was trying to take her daughter, Amna, to the Hadassah Israeli hospital in Jerusalem to change her feeding tube but was stopped at the Shu’fat roadblock as the soldiers refused to allow her through.

Randa showed the soldiers official documents stating that she was heading to the hospital and that despite the fact that her child suffers development issues, the soldiers told her that she cannot cross through the roadblock. Read more