# ‘She was haemorrhaging’: Pregnant women face ordeal at West Bank checkpoints

https://mins.news/en/video/15345

- France 24 English, 2026-08-06 15:23 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXIWUQpaEh8

> Roads are blocked and checkpoints shut whenever violence erupts, as Israel seals off the West Bank. The latest restrictions followed events in Nablus on July 24, when two Israeli settlers and four Palestinians died. France 24 correspondent Claire Duhamel travelled with a paramedic who regularly takes pregnant women to hospital. Their journey highlights the severe difficulties women can face while trying to reach medical care through the checkpoints.

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