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Thursday, March 16, 2006

Hospital Keeps Baby as Collateral

Posted by on March 16 at 18:11 PM

“Moqassed Hospital in East Jerusalem allegedly refused to release a baby to its mother for two months until she paid her hospital bill. “

(The rest of the story, from Haaretz, here.)


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It's the occupation, stupid:

"since the babies' father is a resident of the Palestinian Authority..."

Yeah, stupid. Al-Moqassed is an Arabic name. It appears to mostly service the Arab community, both Israeli and PA. And it's the Israeli government that's intervening on behalf of the Israeli-Arab family, who are also upset that they didn't get a certificate of Israeli citizenship. So, yeah, "it's the occupation".

RUDE!!

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