Tucson Citizen · 9 April 1996
CP-1996-014
Roadblocks blamed in baby’s death
A Bedouin woman denied access to a Jerusalem hospital at an Israeli checkpoint gives birth six weeks early
Scheherezade Faramarzi
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“When soldiers at an Israeli checkpoint refused to let Fayza Abu Dahouk, a 22-year-old…”
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Fayza Abu Dahouk, 22, of Nabi Samuel, turned back at a checkpoint on the way to a Jerusalem hospital. The baby was born six weeks early and died. The earliest checkpoint birth in this archive, and one of the few anywhere in it where the woman is named.
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"Roadblocks blamed in baby’s death," Tucson Citizen, 9 April 1996. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1996-014. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1996-014
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