Palestinian woman gives birth at an Israeli occupation checkpoint in Abu Dis 

Date: 07 / 09 / 2007 Time: 12:08

Bethlehem – Ma'an – 

The Israeli occupation forces confirmed Friday that a Palestinian woman gave birth to a baby at an Israeli occupation checkpoint in the West Bank city of Abu Dis.

The Israeli occupation forces at the checkpoint did not allow her to pass through the checkpoint to reach a hospital in Jerusalem.

Abu Dis is cut of from nearby Jersualem by the illegal Israeli Land-Grab, Apartheid Wall.

Israeli sources said that the woman's family came to the checkpoint to ask permission to go to the hospital, but she gave birth before they could obtain the required permit.

According to the Israeli sources, an soldier called an ambulance but he was forced to deliver the baby with instructions of doctors on phone. After the woman gave birth she was transferred to Al-Maqasid, a Palestinian hospital in Jerusalem.

Palestinian woman gives birth at Israeli occupation checkpoint 

Friday September 07, 2007 12:59 by Nisreen Qumsieh - IMEMC News nisreen at imemc dot org

Israeli sources revealed that a Palestinian woman from Al-'Aizariah gave birth at the military checkpoint near Abu Dees just north of the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Friday morning.

The same sources said that an Israeli border policeman prevented the woman from passing through the checkpoint on her way to a hospital in Jerusalem leaving her to give birth in the street.

Before the building of the illegal Israeli Land-Grab, Apartheid Wall, Abu Dees was a neighborhood of Jerusalem. It is now considered to be part of Bethlehem and therefore behind the wall.

The woman, who came with her family to the checkpoint asking for permission to go to the hospital, gave birth near the illegal Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adomim, which was illegally constructed on lands of the Palestinian town of Al-'Aizariah before having the access to pass the checkpoint.

Israeli sources said that the family of the Palestinian woman arrived at the checkpoint and asked for permission to pass so that she could reach the hospital. However she gave birth to her child before permission could be granted although she was attended to by border police under the directions of Israeli physicians using a cell phone. The woman and her new-born child were later transferred to (Maqassed Palestinian) hospital in Jerusalem.

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Note to Readers:

The Israeli settlements as well as the Land-Grab, Apartheid Wall in the Palestinian occupied territories have been built illegally on confiscated Palestinian lands. These represent a major violation of international law, Geneva Conventions, and they obstruct reaching a peaceful resolution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The Israeli occupation forces abduct and kidnap Palestinians from their homes and at checkpoints, on daily basis. Most media refer to these abductions and kidnappings as arrests, which is inaccurate and not true as the Israeli occupation government has no jurisdiction over Palestinian citizens inside their own territories.

Further, when Israeli occupation forces kill Palestinian civilians, particularly when the victims are women and children, this should be referred to as an act of terrorism, and perpetrators should be described as terrorists.

Since the end of the second intifadha in 2005, not a single Israeli civilian was killed by Palestinian resistance organizations. However, Palestinian civilians have been killed by Israeli occupation forces, almost on daily basis.

Note to Journalists:

Any journalist who does not describe this as terrorism is biased, unfair, not objective, and a participant in terrorizing the Palestinian people, so the Israeli occupation of Palestine can continue endlessly.

Note to Translators:

The Arabic definite article, Al (or its variant, El) should be written with a hyphen separating it from the noun it is associated with, for example Al-Aqsa. If a hyphen is not used, as in Al Aqsa, it confuses non-Arabic readers. They may think that it is an abbreviation of the name Albert, as many Americans do.

The Arabic definite article Al (or El) should be written as such, whether it is Shamsiyah or Qamariyah in pronunciation, simply because we are dealing with the written form of the language, not the spoken one. Using the Shamsiyah so many forms in writing is inaccurate and confusing to non-Arabic readers, to say the least.

Only standard (fasih) pronunciation of Arabic names should be used. Non-standard ('ammi)  should be avoided avoided. Example: Names like Abu Sunainah, Abu Rudainah, and Abu Shebak are written by some translators in the non-standard forms of Abu Snainah, Abu Rdainah, and Abu Shbak.

The standard pronunciation of the vowel at the end of names is (a), not (e), particularly if it is followed by (h), like in the cases of Haniyah and Rudainah, not Haniyeh and Rudaineh.

The standard pronunciation of vowels in the following names is (ai), not (ei) as written by  some translators: Hussain, not Hussein and Hassanain, not Hassanein. This is the same long vowel pronounced in the English words "rain" and "brain."

 

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