Israeli Court asked to insure health care for Palestinian Jerusalem infants

Human Rights organizations in Israel appealed to the High Court in March to order government authorities to issue Palestinian newborns from the eastern part of Jerusalem a temporary identity number. The Israeli Health Ministry and National Insurance Institute have refused to cover health care expenses for Palestinian Jerusalemite newborns until an investigation is carried out to determine if the parents hold Jerusalem ID cards or if they can prove that Jerusalem is their “center of life.”

[For more on unregistered Palestinian children in Jerusalem see Article 74, Issues 16 and 18.]
Source: Ha’aretz (31-3-99)