A four-month-old Palestinian baby has died this Sunday after the Israeli army prevented his passage to a hospital at a military checkpoint located at the entrance to the town of Deir Ammar, near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
"Doctors have announced the death of baby Ahmed Maruf Zaid, after the occupation forces prevented his transfer to the hospital for more than an hour at the military checkpoint at the entrance to Deir Ammar," lamented the governor of Ramallah, Laila Ganam, in a message on social media.
The child, who according to Ganam "was no more than four months old," was being taken in "critical condition" to a health center when soldiers "prevented his family from passing" through the checkpoint, "disregarding" the seriousness of the situation. All this, the governor added, "while they were throwing tear gas at residents and vehicles, thus depriving him of his right to receive timely treatment."
Finally, according to information disseminated by the Palestinian news agency Wafa, the baby was taken to the Specialized Arab Hospital, where his death was certified.
The West Bank authority has denounced that what happened to this minor "is a shame for humanity" and "is part of the terrorist policy that the occupation applies through military checkpoints, control points, and closures" with the aim of, it has maintained, "obstructing the movement of citizens, the sick, and ambulances."
This situation, Ganam continued, represents a "violation of the most basic rights," including "the right to life, freedom of movement, and circulation."
"The fact that the children of our people and our children are attacked, whether through assaults by settler gangs, through direct cold-blooded murders, or by depriving them of medical treatment and leaving them to the mercy of death at checkpoints, reveals the true face of this occupation, which does not hesitate to attack childhood," criticized the governor, who then censured that "this unjust world" remains "impotent in the face of the suffering" of the Palestinian people.
Another Palestinian minor dies in the West Bank
On the other hand, this same Sunday the Palestinian Ministry of Health has reported the death of a 16-year-old teenager, identified as Walid Nidal Walid Abu Sneineh, by Israeli Army gunfire in the refugee camp of the West Bank town of Qalandia, near Jerusalem.
In the context of that gunfire, two minors were also injured, who, as Wafa has detailed, suffered impacts to their lower extremities.