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Israeli mother kidnapped her premature baby from the hospital, abandoned him at Jericho hotel — report
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Illustrative: Israeli soldiers man a checkpoint at the entrance of Jericho in the West Bank, on February 28, 2023. (Ahmad Gharabli/ AFP)
An Israeli woman last week kidnapped her premature baby from Hadassah Medical Center at Mount Scopus and abandoned him at a hotel in the West Bank city of Jericho, Channel 12 news reports.
The reported incident occurred overnight Monday-Tuesday last week.
According to the report, Israel’s security establishment was informed of the incident a short time after and worked with the Palestinian Authority’s security forces to locate and return the two-week-old.
PA forces returned the baby to the Israeli Civil Administration’s Jericho branch, and the mother was arrested by police, the report says.
Jericho resides in Area A — parts of the West Bank under PA security and civil control. Israelis are forbidden by law to enter such areas.
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