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The absurdity of demanding Gaza get its own COVID-19 vaccines Israel can’t cherry-pick its obligations to Gaza while undermining every facet of Palestinian self-rule — especially during a pandemic. Palestinian Health Ministry crews conduct medical tests in Rafah, Gaza, on January 14, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90) More than 15 years ago, Israel pulled its settlers out of Gaza and dismantled its military installations there. Even prior to the “disengagement,” Israel began crafting a n...

65 shares The Palestinian Ministry of Health crews conduct random checks through blood in the town of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on January 14, 2021. For the first time, preventive medicine will contact citizens to complete hundreds of checks during blood sampling, to avoid violating the curfew measures. The blood test helps measure anti-bodies. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90) A senior Palestinian Authority Health Ministry official has expressed concern about the Russian Sputnik vaccine, an ...

Nickolay Mladenov, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process seen during a visit of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres (unseen) at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem August 28, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) When I was a United Nations staff member a few years ago, I drew inspiration from former UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld’s famous words about the institution in 1954. The UN, he said, “was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity f...

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Mousa Abu Marzouk says Qatari envoy al-Emadi to return to Strip by the end of the month, states Qatari aid to poor families will be $30 million per month

319 shares Palestinians wearing face mask attend a prayer at a mosque in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on January 10, 2021. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90 Palestinian health officials announced over the weekend that they had signed a deal with the AstraZeneca pharmaceutical firm and were anticipating the arrival of its first major vaccine shipment by the end of February. “We’ve received a formal letter from the AstraZeneca pharmaceutical company that by February 15th, the vac...

Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine doses arrive at a vaccination center in Jerusalem, January 4, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90) Israel has secretly transferred dozens of doses of coronavirus vaccine to the Palestinian Authority, the Kan public broadcaster reported Wednesday. According to the report, the vaccines were delivered at the start of the week after the PA made a request for “special humanitarian cases.” An unnamed Palestinian source told Kan that the vaccinations had not yet been u...

Amnesty International on Wednesday called on Israel to provide coronavirus vaccine doses to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, saying the Jewish state was obligated to do so under international law

The position of the United States, the UN, the EU, and Russia about what a legitimate Palestinian government would look... The fact that Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad continue to produce rockets and a range of other weapons means that Gaza is home to a growing arsenal of firepower, embedded deeply within and underneath Gaza’s sprawling urban neighborhoods in a deliberate policy of human shielding. Recent comments by Palestinian Islamic Jihad Secretary-General Ziad Nakhaleh, who addresse...

6 shares Members of the Palestinian security forces enforce a lockdown following the spread of the coronavirus in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on December 18, 2020. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90) Four weeks into a coronavirus curfew in Gaza and nearly two weeks into a lockdown in the West Bank, rates of coronavirus infection remain high in both Palestinian areas. While West Bank Palestinian areas remain under lockdown, the restrictions are not as harsh currently as during previous atte...