By: Alex Safian, PhD April 14, 2021 0share After Israel arranged to get early access to enough COVID-19 vaccine for its entire population, journalists and human rights groups like Amnesty International mangled international law and the Oslo Accords to argue that Israel must also vaccinate Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. This despite that, unlike Israeli-Arabs, Palestinians live under Palestinian rule and are not citizens or permanent residents of Israel. According to the But Israel says it isn’t obliged to vaccinate the rest of the Palestinian population, citing a clause of the Oslo peace accords of the 1990s, which transferred health care duties to Palestinian officials. Critics say it is still Israel’s responsibility to help, citing international law requiring an occupying power to oversee health care for occupied populations, as well as a separate clause of the Oslo accords that says Israel must work with Palestinians during epidemics. (NYT, April 2, 2021)