Murder by checkpoint continues – Fawziya Qabb dies as pleas to Israeli soldiers fall on deaf ears

West Bank woman denied ambulance dies
15 Feb 2008 Reuters, by Muin Shadid

TULKARM, West Bank, Feb 14 (Reuters) - A Palestinian woman who was refused access to an ambulance at an Israeli military checkpoint died in her village in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, a Palestinian doctor and relatives said...the husband of Fawziya Qabb pleaded with soldiers at the Jarushiya checkpoint near the town of Tulkarm to let his wife get to an ambulance waiting to take her to a Palestinian hospital but they ignored him.

...Qabb's relatives from the village of Deir al-Ghosoon close to Tulkarm said they called the ambulance but soldiers did not allow it through the checkpoint to pick up the 67-year-old. "I asked the officer to let us cross but he refused," husband Mahmoud Yousef Qabb said. Mahmoud said that after failing to persuade the soldiers for 20 minutes, he took his ailing wife back to the village doctor who failed in his efforts to save her life.

"She had suffered a stroke and needed urgent hospital attention. She might have lived if she had reached hospital," village doctor Abdel-Fattah al-Darak said.

...Israel says it allows humanitarian cases through the checkpoints.

Full 'balanced' story from Reuters, complete with Israeli military lies, here
See also Checkpoint Watch's report, "They can die” the soldier added, when we showed him a pregnant woman and a baby.