Nine-month pregnant woman held off at Israeli army checkpoint

A nine-month pregnant woman was held off on Sunday for four hours at an Israeli army check-point before being authorized to cross to a hospital in army-sealed Naplus, an Israel human rights group said.

The woman was eventually allowed to cross the military check-point after an Israeli organization opposing the check-points interfered, according to the source.

Israel had barred Palestinian travel within and out of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip a month ago, cutting people off from workplaces, schools and services, after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 21 people in the town of Haifa.

Nablus, a town of the West Bank, has been completely sealed off since Sunday and even ambulances are barred from entering the city.