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SilentPanda

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Nov 6, 2017
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Israel is celebrating an impressive, record-setting vaccination drive, having given initial jabs of coronavirus shots to more than a 10th of the population. But Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza can only watch and wait.

As the world ramps up what is already on track to become a highly unequal vaccination push – with people in richer nations first to be inoculated – the situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories provides a stark example of the divide.

Israel transports batches of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine deep inside the West Bank. But they are only distributed to Jewish settlers, and not the roughly 2.7 million Palestinians living around them who may have to wait for weeks or months.

"I don't know how, but there must be a way to make us a priority, too?" said Mahmoud Kilani, a 31-year-old sports coach from the Palestinian city of Nablus. "Who cares about us? I don't think anybody is stuck on that question."

The prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has told Israelis that the country could be the first to emerge from the pandemic. As well as a highly advanced healthcare system, part of the reason for the speed could be economics. A health ministry official said the country had paid $62 a dose, compared with the $19.50 the US is paying.

Heba Abu Asr, 35, a resident of Gaza, jolted when asked how she felt about others getting the vaccine first. "Are you seriously trying to compare us with Israel or any other country?" she asked. "We can't find work, food, or drink. We are under threat all the time. We do not even have any necessities for life."

www.theguardian.com

Palestinians excluded from Israeli Covid vaccine rollout as jabs go to settlers

Human rights groups accuse Israel of dodging obligations to millions in occupied territories who may wait months for vaccination
 
Jan 31, 2018
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Racist apartheid state continues to behave like a racist apartheid state. And the world doesn't care. Embarrassing and shameful.
 

CrazyDude

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Oct 25, 2017
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These are the people we should be giving 500 million dollars to instead of back to our own citizens.
 
May 26, 2018
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Getting your own people sick in the process. Fucking self-destructive nonsense, but that's what happens without empathy and compassion.
 

Codeblue

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Oct 25, 2017
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Wasn't expecting a state engaged in ethnic cleansing to be equitable in their vaccine roll out.

Heba summed it up nicely in that last quote.
 

Syriel

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Dec 13, 2017
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Racist apartheid state continues to behave like a racist apartheid state. And the world doesn't care. Embarrassing and shameful.
Getting your own people sick in the process. Fucking self-destructive nonsense, but that's what happens without empathy and compassion.
Why would a genocidal State miss another golden opportunity to further their genocidal agenda?

According to other news sources, the Palestinian Ministry of Health secured its own supply of the vaccine and is handling its own rollout.

Not surprising that Palestinians wouldn't trust Israel to supply it.

www.business-standard.com

Palestine to receive first shipment of Covid-19 vaccines in two weeks

Since the pandemic broke out in the Palestinian territories in March, it has so far registered a total of 148,540 coronavirus cases

mondoweiss.net

Coronavirus in Palestine: Anti-lockdown protests, vaccine talks, and surging cases

Earlier this week residents of Hebron staged protests against the Palestinian Authority (PA) over renewed COVID-19 lockdowns across the West Bank, sparking clashes and confrontations between armed civilians and PA security forces.

www.jpost.com

Palestinians: We didn't ask Israel for COVID-19 vaccine

The PA, with the help of the World Health Organization, has managed to secure the vaccine from other sources.

www.jpost.com

PA: Palestinian prisoners to receive COVID-19 vaccine

Vaccines against COVID-19 will be available to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip within the next two weeks.
 

Brazil

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Oct 24, 2017
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According to other news sources, the Palestinian Ministry of Health secured its own supply of the vaccine and is handling its own rollout.

Not surprising that Palestinians wouldn't trust Israel to supply it.

www.business-standard.com

Palestine to receive first shipment of Covid-19 vaccines in two weeks

Since the pandemic broke out in the Palestinian territories in March, it has so far registered a total of 148,540 coronavirus cases

mondoweiss.net

Coronavirus in Palestine: Anti-lockdown protests, vaccine talks, and surging cases

Earlier this week residents of Hebron staged protests against the Palestinian Authority (PA) over renewed COVID-19 lockdowns across the West Bank, sparking clashes and confrontations between armed civilians and PA security forces.

www.jpost.com

Palestinians: We didn't ask Israel for COVID-19 vaccine

The PA, with the help of the World Health Organization, has managed to secure the vaccine from other sources.

www.jpost.com

PA: Palestinian prisoners to receive COVID-19 vaccine

Vaccines against COVID-19 will be available to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip within the next two weeks.
That is good to hear.
 
May 26, 2018
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According to other news sources, the Palestinian Ministry of Health secured its own supply of the vaccine and is handling its own rollout.

Not surprising that Palestinians wouldn't trust Israel to supply it.

www.business-standard.com

Palestine to receive first shipment of Covid-19 vaccines in two weeks

Since the pandemic broke out in the Palestinian territories in March, it has so far registered a total of 148,540 coronavirus cases

mondoweiss.net

Coronavirus in Palestine: Anti-lockdown protests, vaccine talks, and surging cases

Earlier this week residents of Hebron staged protests against the Palestinian Authority (PA) over renewed COVID-19 lockdowns across the West Bank, sparking clashes and confrontations between armed civilians and PA security forces.

www.jpost.com

Palestinians: We didn't ask Israel for COVID-19 vaccine

The PA, with the help of the World Health Organization, has managed to secure the vaccine from other sources.

www.jpost.com

PA: Palestinian prisoners to receive COVID-19 vaccine

Vaccines against COVID-19 will be available to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip within the next two weeks.

Wait wait wait, did those vaccines get ordered after the others as a response to getting nothing? Or what? Did the story in the OP just work me into a shoot?
 

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Oct 24, 2017
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This was unfortunately and shamefully always going to land on the Palestinian Authority to take care of, it's good to see they have made some progress at least.
 

Menx64

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Oct 30, 2017
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The terrorist state of Israel doing what they do best.
Good to hear the Palestinian authority is ready to take on the task.
 
Oct 27, 2017
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I expected this. Israel can't be trusted to do something good for the people it is oppressing, especially after they for some "magical" reason they allowed people from the west bank to travel inside it's borders when covid was spreading wildly inside it. Why prevent easy genocide?

It is good the Palestinian authority decided to act rather than wait. I don't like them because they always disappoint me with stuff like this but thankfully they were wise enough not to fuck up this time.
 

Codeblue

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Oct 25, 2017
1,841
Wait wait wait, did those vaccines get ordered after the others as a response to getting nothing? Or what? Did the story in the OP just work me into a shoot?

No, the story in the OP is also being reported by PBS and the Washington Post.

Israel's minister of health said that they have no obligation to the Palestinians population under their control, but that it would be in their self interest to help an adjacent population after every Israeli had been vaccinated.

Israel keeps the Palestinians in a perpetual state of poverty. Palestine has no money for basic necessities let alone the vaccine or the means to store them. They're largely relying on the charity to vaccinate their people. It's going to be a long and slow process.

Israel occupies these territories. They are currently engaged in actively depriving Palestinians of food and water. That they leave them to die when it comes to vaccinations is not surprising.

The occupation is the problem, and covid is just one more way it kills Palestinians.
 

nib95

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Oct 28, 2017
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More of their heinous apartheid crap. Shameful.
 

Deleted member 8257

Oct 26, 2017
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If there were any doubts about Israel being an Apartheid state.
 

Apathy

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Oct 25, 2017
11,992
According to other news sources, the Palestinian Ministry of Health secured its own supply of the vaccine and is handling its own rollout.

Not surprising that Palestinians wouldn't trust Israel to supply it.

www.business-standard.com

Palestine to receive first shipment of Covid-19 vaccines in two weeks

Since the pandemic broke out in the Palestinian territories in March, it has so far registered a total of 148,540 coronavirus cases

mondoweiss.net

Coronavirus in Palestine: Anti-lockdown protests, vaccine talks, and surging cases

Earlier this week residents of Hebron staged protests against the Palestinian Authority (PA) over renewed COVID-19 lockdowns across the West Bank, sparking clashes and confrontations between armed civilians and PA security forces.

www.jpost.com

Palestinians: We didn't ask Israel for COVID-19 vaccine

The PA, with the help of the World Health Organization, has managed to secure the vaccine from other sources.

www.jpost.com

PA: Palestinian prisoners to receive COVID-19 vaccine

Vaccines against COVID-19 will be available to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip within the next two weeks.
This needs to be threadmarked. This is important for people to read instead of just the headline
 

Aftervirtue

Banned
Nov 13, 2017
1,616
America wishes it could do the same to its "Palestinians"

Anytime people wonder how the Holocaust could happen I just send them information about the modern Israeli state.
 

ZiZ

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Oct 27, 2017
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If anyone thinks Palestinians are allowed to have access to decent Healthcare then I don't know what to tell you. Many aren't allowed access to suitable water. Most aren't allowed access to their homes.