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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian hospitals are overfull and intensive-care units operating at 100% capacity with coronavirus patients in some areas of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Tuesday.
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Palestinian cities have introduced full lockdowns over the last two weeks to control soaring COVID-19 infections, even as neighbouring Israel has begun to lift restrictions as it proceeds with one of the world’s fastest vaccination campaigns.
“The percentage of hospital occupancy in some areas has reached more than 100%,” Shtayyeh said in Ramallah, one of the West Bank cities where his Palestinian Authority (PA) exercises limited self-rule.
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Palestinian hospitals are overfull and intensive-care units operating at 100% capacity with coronavirus patients in some areas of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Tuesday.
Left MEPs have welcomed the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to open a formal investigation into war crimes in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The situation in Palestine was referred to the ICC for investigation in June 2014. The Court has since been under intense pressure from Israel and its allies in the West to drop the case.
The Trump administration – on behalf of Israel – imposed sanctions against the ICC Chief Prosecutor and members of her office. President Biden seems committed to continue with Trump’s belligerency against the Court.
Manu Pineda, Chair of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with Palestine (DPAL), urged the EU to spare no effort to defend the integrity of the investigation in face of the Israel and US attacks against the Court: