Stories like this make my blood boil and stomach turn, truly. Are these people not human, too? Do they not also have mothers and grandmothers?

It beggars belief.

Here is a snippet, courtesy of the ElectronicIntifada:

At approximately 17:00 on Thursday, 13 February, Fawzia Abd al-Fattah al-Darak (59) from Deir al-Ghosoun north of Tulkarm died when IOF prevented an ambulance from taking her to a hospital in Tulkarm. Mohammad al-Darak, her husband, informed PCHR’s fieldworker that his wife started to experience severe chest pain. They called the emergency department of the Palestine Red Crescent Society in Tulkarm in order to transport her to a hospital. However, the IOF troops stationed at the checkpoint to the south of Deir al-Ghosoun prevented the ambulance from entering the village. The woman’s family put her in a private taxi and tried to take her to the ambulance. However, IOF troops prevented the vehicle from passing through the checkpoint despite being informed of the woman’s condition. The ambulance was waiting on the other side of the checkpoint but the troops did not allow it to pass. The family took the woman back to a private physician in the village. However, she died of a heart attack.