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Israeli Occupation Forces Fire At Pregnant Palestinian Woman, Kill Husband
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Al Hayek lost her husband a few hours before giving birth |
NABLUS, Feb. 26 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Israeli occupation soldiers manning a roadblock south of Nablus early Monday wounded a pregnant Palestinian woman and killed her husband, news agencies reported.
Maysun Al-Hayek, was about to give birth and was accompanied by her husband, Mohammed Abdullah Dahoud Al-Hayek, 22, who was killed and his father, a 64-year-old, was wounded, Palestinian security and hospital sources said, reported Palestinian News Agency (WAFA).
The sources said the couple had been on their way to a hospital for Maysun, 22, to give birth when soldiers fired at their car near the Balata refugee camp on the outskirts of Nablus.
Maysun, hit in the shoulder, was evacuated to a hospital and her husband died after being shot with 25 bullets. Her father-in-law, who was travelling with the family in the hope that the presence of an old man would make their journey safer, was seriously wounded by the occupation fire, would could leave him paralyzed from the neck down, BBC reported.
It was the second shooting of a pregnant Palestinian woman near Nablus in two days. On Sunday, a woman in labor was fired on from an occupation troops outpost overlooking the road where the woman was being taken to hospital to give birth.
Both Palestinian women came under fire from Israeli troops in the West Bank as they rushed through the same Israeli checkpoint on consecutive nights, both risking their lives to reach hospital in time to give birth, reported BBC's online news service.
The pregnant woman and her family were in the Tal il Sultan area in Rafah and were all injured. "The mother, Fidaa Al Asi, 25, was injured and her daughter Rahaf Marwani, 1 and a half years old was wounded in the leg, Al Asi's mother was wounded in the leg and pelvis and the nine-year-old boy accompanying them was also injured," said Dr. Ali Mousa, the director of the Rafah Hospital. He added that Hisham Rasras, an 18-year-old was also critically injured in the incident and was transferred to the Intensive Care Unit in Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza.
Mother Maysun Hayek said she had tried to hold out till daytime after hearing about Sunday's incident.
"I was afraid that something would happen to us," she said. "My husband told me before we left the house that maybe we would live to see the baby, and maybe we would not."
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