Monday, 11 January, 2021 - 09:15
Palestinian prisoners at Gilboa prison. (AFP file) Tel Aviv - Asharq Al-Awsat
Five human rights organizations in Israel submitted a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court to force Minister of Public Security Amir Ohana to vaccinate Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails against COVID-19.
The mover was made after he had decreed that the detainees would not receive the vaccine.
The joint petition was signed by the Adalah Legal Center, Association for Civil Rights, Physicians for Human Rights, Center for the Defense of the Individual, and Rabbis for Human Rights.
The organizations demanded that the court order the Israel Prison Service (IPS) to inoculate all prisoners against COVID-19, especially those over the age of 60.
January 11, 2021 at 4:26 pm
In violation of all religious norms as well as international laws and conventions, Israel is weaponising the Covid-19 vaccine against the Palestinians, whose land, homes and rights are under constant threat from the occupation state.
The Israeli Health Ministry began its vaccination programme on 20 December. Officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that millions of doses had been bought, enough for everyone in Israel. This was deceitful, because the occupation government is not vaccinating some of the most vulnerable people under its control: the Palestinians living under Israeli occupation, for whom Israel is legally and morally responsible; and Palestinian prisoners in its jails.
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Five human rights organizations submitted a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court today, Sunday, against the decision of the Israeli Minister of Internal Security, Amir Ohana, not to vaccinate Palestinian prisoners with the Coronavirus vaccine.
The petition was submitted by the organizations: the Association for Civil Rights, Physicians for Human Rights, Adalah, the Center for the Defense of the Individual and Rabbis for Human Rights.
In the petition, the organizations demanded the issuance of a decision requiring the Prisons Authority to vaccinate all prisoners, especially those over the age of 60, and the petition also called for preventing the Prisons Authority from preferring vaccinating prisoners to vaccinating prisoners.
Five human rights organizations demand inoculation of Palestinian prisoners against coronavirus
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NAZARETH, Sunday, January 10, 2021 (WAFA) – Five human rights organizations in Israel submitted today a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court against the decision of the Israeli Minister of Internal Security, Amir Ohana, not to vaccinate Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails against COVID-19.
The petition was submitted by the Association for Civil Rights, Physicians for Human Rights, Adalah, the Center for the Defense of the Individual, and Rabbis for Human Rights.
In their petition, the five organizations demanded that the Israeli High Court orders the Israel Prison Service to vaccinate all prisoners against COVID-19, especially those over the age of 60. The petition also demanded that the Israel Prison Service prohibit the preference for vaccinating Israeli civil prisoners over Palestinian political prisoners.
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