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Senior figures in Ramallah have claimed Israel is obligated to provide shots; Israel denies this; the PA has yet to receive any major shipments of vaccines ....
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 essential pillar in Ramallah’s coronavirus immunization plan, and indicated that many doses of coronavirus vaccine might still be months away from reaching the Palestinians. The Palestinian Authority has announced deals with four companies to provide doses for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza: AstraZeneca, Moderna, the Chinese government-backed Sinopharm, and the Russian-backed Sputnik V. ....
Modern Israel celebrates its 73rd birthday this week. Let me put my cards on the table: I’m not dispassionate when. However, the truth of the matter is that this story about Israel supposedly withholding coronavirus vaccines is simply another malicious anti-Israel attack. First, regardless of all the good that Israel does in the world, the haters inevitably step forward to paint Israel as evil. They cannot afford for Israel to receive credit, because it will demolish the fallacious anti-Israel foundations they have built. Former Knesset member Einat Wilf put it best on Twitter when she wrote: “Israel advances status of GBTQ? ‘Pinkwashing.’ Israelis lead world as vegans? ‘Veganwashing.’ Israel sets up first mobile hospital in devastated Haiti? ‘Harvesting organs.’ Israel is global vaccination leader? ‘What about Palestinians?’” ....
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 vaccines will arrive in Palestine…between the middle and the end of the month,” Palestinian Authority Health Ministry spokesperson Kamal al-Shakhra told Voice of Palestine Radio on Saturday. ....
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