{"id":4970,"date":"2006-05-02T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-03-21T13:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T11:44:10","slug":"epalestine-prisoner-sbeih-gives-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2006\/05\/epalestine-prisoner-sbeih-gives-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Prisoner Sbeih Gives Birth to Her Child at an Israeli Prison Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">INTERNATIONAL PRESS CENTER&#160; <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">www.ipc.gov.ps&#160; <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">02\/05\/2006&#160; <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"4\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><strong>Prisoner Sbeih Gives Birth to Her Child at an Israeli Prison  Hospital&#160;&#160; <\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">GAZA, May 2, 2006 (IPC + Agencies) &#8211; &#8211; At the Mair Military Hospital near the city of Kfar  Saba, north of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, the first cries of a young Palestinian baby &quot;Baraa&quot;  echoed throughout the hospital, following a cesarean operation for his mother, prisoner  Samar Sbeih. Samar&#8217;s husband, Rasmi Sbeih, who is also a prisoner at the Negev Desert  Prison, said that his wife gave birth to their first child at an Israeli hospital operated by the  Israeli Prison Service.&#160;&#160; <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">Sbeih added that his wife gave birth under harsh measures, and was handcuffed during her  pre-delivery tests, and she was uncuffed only when the doctors decided she would undergo a  cesarean operation.&#160;&#160; <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">The Ministry of Prisoner and Ex-Detainee Affairs, along with several human rights  organizations, have managed in the past weeks to issue a judicial decision forcing the Israeli  Prison Service not to cuff the prisoner Sbeih while giving birth to her child &#8211; as was usually  done when Palestinian prisoners give birth.&#160;&#160; <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">&quot;I want to know if there is a law in the world that denies me the right of being transferred to  another prison to attend my wife&#8217;s delivery,&quot; Rasmi Sbeih said, calling on the international  and human rights organizations to interfere and allow him to see his wife and new-born son.&#160;&#160; <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">Samar gave birth to her son without the presence of any member of her family, after Israeli  occupation forces disrupted the enforcement of any verdicts that allowed the prisoner&#8217;s sister  and husband to attend the delivery.&#160;&#160; <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">the 22-year-old prisoner who is originally from Gaza Strip, is married and lives in Tulkarem.  She was arrested on September 29, 2005 and was sentenced to 28 months in prison, after  Israeli authorities allegedly accused her of receiving military training and affiliating with  Hamas movement.&#160;&#160; <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">Samar&#8217;s husband has been administratively detained at the Negev Desert Prison, and  recently his detention was renewed for the second time consecutively.&#160;&#160; <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">On the other hand, the International Solidarity Association asserted that three Palestinian  prisoners have given birth to their children at the Mair Military Hospital under tragic  conditions, maximum security and through cesarean operations.&#160;&#160; <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">Meanwhile, the Minister of Prisoner and Ex-Detainee Affairs Wasfi Qabha, demanded on  Sunday all the international organizations and human rights groups to immediately work on  ending the tragedy of Palestinian prisoners, especially those who gave birth to their children  behind bars.&#160;&#160; 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