Occupied West Bank – Going home after seven years in an Israeli jail was bittersweet for Mohammed Ennabi. Several months into his sentence in 2009, his father killed another Palestinian in a brawl.
While neither Ennabi nor his siblings were connected to the crime or convicted in a court of law, the entire family was ordered to leave their homes and abandon their properties and businesses in the village of Silwad, east of Ramallah.
When Ennabi was released from jail in 2016, the house he was born and raised in was off limits; torched twice, vandalised and abandoned.
“We became refugees in 1948 and got displaced in 1967 because of the Israeli occupation, then again we were expelled from our hometown by our own countrymen,” Ennabi said.
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Jan. 24, 2021
WASHINGTON – Concerns about inadequate Israeli distribution of COVID-19 vaccinations for Palestinians are beginning to emerge within the Democratic Party. These range from freshman progressive lawmakers on Twitter to some of the most respected lawmakers commenting during cabinet-level confirmation hearings.
Infection rates in Israel are decreasing amid a third national lockdown and one of the world’s most ambitious vaccination campaigns. Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, meanwhile, are expecting a several-month waiting period before vaccines are widely distributed, though infection rates are relatively low.
As of Saturday, Israel had 82,002 active cases and 4,263 fatalities from the virus. In the West Bank, there were 4,779 active cases and 1,428 deaths, while Gaza had 5,603 active cases and 497 deaths.
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After sprinting ahead in the race to inoculate its population against the coronavirus, Israel has struck a deal with Pfizer, promising to share vast troves of medical data with the international drug giant in exchange for the continued flow of its hard-to-get vaccine.
Proponents say the deal could allow Israel to become the first country to vaccinate most of its population, while providing valuable research that could help the rest of the world.
But critics say the deal raises major ethical concerns, including possible privacy violations and a deepening of the global divide that enables wealthy countries to stockpile vaccines as poorer populations, including Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza, have to wait longer to be inoculated.