Latest victim of Israeli soldiers preventing access to medical treatment by Palestine Monitor 8:07pm Sun Jun 15 '03 Muhammad Hassan Abu Qibeta, aged 65, died at the Yatta/Hebron checkpoint yesterday (June 14) after Israeli soldiers prevented him from travelling to Hebron. print article Latest victim of Israeli soldiers preventing access to medical treatment June 15, 2003 Muhammad Hassan Abu Qibeta, aged 65, died at the Yatta/Hebron checkpoint yesterday (June 14) after Israeli soldiers prevented him from travelling to Hebron. Muhammad, from Yatta, a diabetic, suffered a heart attack; unable to provide him with the necessary treatment, the local doctor sent him to the nearest local hospital, which is in Hebron. However, when the ambulance arrived at the Israeli military checkpoint, the soldiers prevented Muhammad and the ambulance from crossing. After an hour spent with the ambulance driver and doctor trying to negotiate entry, Muhammad died. In a related incident a small girl was prevented, by Israeli soldiers at the same checkpoint, from reaching Hebron hospital. Doctors in Yatta were eventually able to save the child, who was suffering an acute asthma attack. According to data from The Palestine Monitor, Muhammad is the 80th Palestinian to die from prevention of access to medical treatment. These victims include newborn babies whose mothers gave birth at the checkpoint, kidney patients unable to reach hospital for life saving dialysis treatment, and other victims of heart attacks, strokes and various ailments. Dr. Osman Fateh said, "The death of this patient could have been avoided, had he been allowed to reach hospital. But he, and many of others like him, died because of this suffocating closure imposed on Palestinian towns and cities, enforced with hundreds of checkpoints, soldiers and barriers on the roads. The tragedy is that he did not have to die." www.palestinemonitor.org add your comments

Sad by Nani 10:58pm Sun Jun 15 '03 print comment IDF = terrorist. add your comments

no, he is a victim of arafat and hamas by John 11:34pm Sun Jun 15 '03 print comment Arafat - because he is a thief stilling the money from his people instead of building hospitals and towns. Hamas - because of then there is a sige that is an effective method against arab terrorists. Go and blame those pigs for his death. add your comments

No wonder by Nani 11:54pm Sun Jun 15 '03 print comment With logic like John, no wonder IDF terrorism is growing. add your comments