As we argue over APARTHEID, Israeli soldier is jailed over arab baby tragedy

[Liberty Star]

As US media and politicians squabble to determine what constitues an apartheid in holy land and whether lines between fundies extremisms and racism are blurred in occupation policies there, Israeli regime seems to be resorting to new tough measures to combat racism policies in occupied territories there:

15:16 GMT, Friday, 12 September 2008 16:16 UK

Israeli jailed over baby tragedy

An Israeli soldier has been removed from duty and jailed for two weeks for refusing to allow a Palestinian woman in labour to pass through a checkpoint.



There are hundreds of blockages to the movement of Palestinians


The soldier was in command at the checkpoint outside the West Bank city of Nablus. The woman was trying to reach a hospital in the city.

She was forced to give birth at the checkpoint. Her baby was stillborn.

The Israeli army said the woman and her husband did not have the permit to allow the car to enter Nablus.

But the army said the incident, which occurred a week ago, could have been prevented.

It took an ambulance from Nablus 50 minutes to get to the checkpoint. At which point the baby was dead.

Between 2000 and 2006, at least 68 Palestinian women gave birth at Israeli checkpoints, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Of these 35 women miscarried, and five died in childbirth.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7612887.stm

[Mopsus]

Two weeks in an Israeli "jail" for an IDF soldier for the death of a Palestinian baby. I'm sure he's going to do some hard time.

Israel just created another family of "terrorists."

[tonesforjonesbones]

Disgusting. Tones

[ChooseLiberty]

How many days will they get for shooting little Arab kids in the back of the head?

Rght now it's zero for people keeping count.

As US media and politicians squabble to determine what constitues an apartheid in holy land and whether lines between fundies extremisms and racism are blurred in occupation policies there, Israeli regime seems to be resorting to new tough measures to combat racism policies in occupied territories there:






http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7612887.stm