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JERICHO, West Bank (Reuters) - As a Palestinian living in Jerusalem, Ismail Daiq is used to negotiating the dividing lines between communities: the daily commute to his Jordan Valley date farm involves crossing a checkpoint on his way home.
A Palestinian health worker is vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) after the delivery of doses from Israel, in Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, February 3, 2021. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma
Now the coronavirus pandemic has created another faultline for him to navigate: the stark difference between access to vaccines in Israel and in the Palestinian territories.
Living within the Israeli health system, Daiq, 62, has already received his second COVID-19 vaccination in a country that is a leader in the world’s inoculation drive.
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Israel’s decision to give 5,000 vaccine doses to Palestinian health workers is wholly inadequate, rights group says CNBC 3/02/2021 Natasha Turak
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz s office announced that the transfer had been approved on Sunday, marking the first such move since the country of 9 million began receiving shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in mid-December.
Israel has since then deployed what s become the fastest vaccination campaign in the world in terms of shots per person.
Rights organizations say the lack of equitable vaccine distribution to Palestinian territories is a dereliction of duty by Israel, which is classified by the U.N. as an occupier state.
Israel’s decision to give 5,000 vaccine doses to Palestinian health workers is wholly inadequate, rights group says
CNBC 2/3/2021 Natasha Turak
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz s office announced that the transfer had been approved on Sunday, marking the first such move since the country of 9 million began receiving shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in mid-December.
Israel has since then deployed what s become the fastest vaccination campaign in the world in terms of shots per person.
Rights organizations say the lack of equitable vaccine distribution to Palestinian territories is a dereliction of duty by Israel, which is classified by the U.N. as an occupier state.
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel s US correspondent based in New York
Jamaal Bowman, the Democratic nominee for New York s 16th congressional district, smiles as he talks to the media on Nov. 3, 2020 in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Democratic Congressman Jamaal Bowman of New York penned a letter to Israel’s acting consul general in the city on Tuesday, criticizing the latter’s government for not doing more to vaccinate Palestinians and comparing the discrepancy to racial inequality in the US.
Bowman lauded the efforts made by Israel to vaccinate its own citizens at record-pace and said he was “heartened” by reports that Israel had agreed to transfer 5,000 doses to immunize Palestinian frontline medical staff. Thus far, 2,000 have made their way to the Palestinian Authority, which has begun inoculating health workers.
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