Yahoo News: Amnesty raises plight of Palestinian women

was gonna post some stuff bout my trip until i read this on yahoo.

LONDON (Reuters) - Palestinian women are suffering intimidation and violence at the hands of Israeli security forces and within their own community, Amnesty International has said in a report.

Some have been forced to give birth at Israeli checkpoints because they are not allowed through to hospital, while others are subject to "honour killings" by relatives.

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It cited the case of Rula Ashtiya who was refused passage on August 26, 2003, by Israeli soldiers at the Beit Furik checkpoint on the way to hospital in Nablus to give birth.

"I was lying on the ground in the dust and I crawled behind a concrete block by the checkpoint to have some privacy and gave birth there, in the dust, like an animal," she said.

"I held the baby in my arms and she moved a little but after a few minutes she died in my arms."

while the law (in this case military law) is created to maintain order and security in society, one key aspect of it is missing in the upholding the law today. Mercy. Law should be tempered with compassion and mercy. Without those, true it will provide security and order, but at what expense? at the result of our humanity? bleh...