A mass vaccination programme for #Palestinian health workers + the over 60s & vulnerable people in the #WestBank has begun.
Palestinian medical staff on the frontline have spent the day vaccinating each other with the newly acquired doses. [thread]
Palestinian medical staff on the frontline have spent the day vaccinating each other with the newly acquired doses. [thread]
A consignment of 2000 Moderna jabs were supplied by Israel on Monday & began to be administered to medical workers today.
It will take several months, with regular supplies, to vaccinate the population.
It will take several months, with regular supplies, to vaccinate the population.
In addition to the 🇮🇱 delivery, 5,000 doses of 🇷🇺 Sputnik vaccine are due to arrive in the West Bank soon. An additional 37,000 doses will be supplied via the @WHO Covax scheme.
Officials say doses from West Bank will be transferred to Palestinians in the #Gaza in coming days.
Officials say doses from West Bank will be transferred to Palestinians in the #Gaza in coming days.
Over past few weeks, the Palestinian Authority in #WestBank and #Hamas in #Gaza had both complained that as an occupying power, Israel should provide the vaccine it procured to the Palestinian Territories. Yet formal requests for Israel’s help were not explicit.
For its part, 🇮🇱 had said that the Oslo Peace Accords handed responsibility for healthcare to the Palestinians.
But despite intransigence on both sides, it was clear 🇮🇱 recognised the importance of ensuring the Palestinians, many of whom cross into 🇮🇱 for work, is vaccinated.
But despite intransigence on both sides, it was clear 🇮🇱 recognised the importance of ensuring the Palestinians, many of whom cross into 🇮🇱 for work, is vaccinated.
There are 8,205 active coronavirus cases in the West Bank and Gaza - which have a combined population of about 4 million. 1,840 people have died.
.@YuliEdelstein, 🇮🇱 Health Minister, spoke to me about the Palestinian 💉 a few weeks ago.
“We do understand that it's in Israeli interests... You can't divide the 2 neatly and say ‘they can deal with themselves; it's not our issue’. It is our issue...”
“We do understand that it's in Israeli interests... You can't divide the 2 neatly and say ‘they can deal with themselves; it's not our issue’. It is our issue...”
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