Palestinians should begin receiving two million vaccine doses by the end of the first week of March.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Elder of Ziyon
COVID-19
Palestinians should begin receiving two million vaccine doses by the end of the first week of March.
Monday, February 22, 2021
Monday, February 22, 2021
Elder of Ziyon
COVID-19
Monday, February 22, 2021
Elder of Ziyon
COVID-19
Today, finally, Hamas started the process of inoculating Gazans with the Russian Sputnik-V vaccine.
Sunday, February 21, 2021
Sunday, February 21, 2021
Elder of Ziyon
COVID-19
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Elder of Ziyon
COVID-19
Monday, February 15, 2021
Monday, February 15, 2021
Elder of Ziyon
COVID-19
Breaking: The Palestinian Authority secretly sent vaccines to Jordan. These are 200 Sputnik vaccines that were transferred last Thursday via the Allenby Bridge to the Jordanian General Intelligence Agency. This is what Palestinian sources told Kan News.It is unclear whether the vaccines are intended for the Jordanian defense establishment or for Palestinian officials living in Jordan.In recent days, there has been growing criticism of the Palestinian Authority, which allegedly vaccinated senior officials, associates and official journalists, before it began vaccinating groups at risk in the general population.To date, the authority has received enough vaccines to vaccinate only 6,000 people against the virus (12,000 vaccine doses) and as far as is known had begun vaccinating medical staff.
Why would the PA send the scarce vaccines into Jordan? The theory that it is going to Palestinian officials there makes the most sense.
Of course, the people complaining about how Israel is supposedly withholding vaccines will not say a word about how nepotism and politics, not need, seems to be driving Palestinian vaccinations.
(h/t ymedad)
Sunday, February 14, 2021
Sunday, February 14, 2021
Elder of Ziyon
COVID-19
Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi and Defense Minister Bnei Gantz are expected to approve in the coming days a request submitted by the Palestinian Authority for the transfer of tens of thousands of vaccine doses to the Gaza Strip.According to senior IDF officers, thousands of doses have so far been transferred. Now, the request that was sent to Israel a few days ago refers to vaccines that the Palestinian Authority purchased with its own money or vaccines that it received as a donation from the World Health Organization, the European Union and Russia."Israel has approved and assisted in the various waves of the corona to transfer medical equipment to hospitals in the Strip," said senior officers involved in the details. They added that "corona vaccines are no different from regular drug or flu vaccines."
Last week, Israel provided vaccines for hundreds of Palestinian workers in another little-reported story.
Thursday, February 04, 2021
Thursday, February 04, 2021
Elder of Ziyon
COVID-19
Monday, February 01, 2021
Monday, February 01, 2021
Elder of Ziyon
COVID-19
If Israel would set up a free vaccination clinic for Palestinians outside Ramallah as @guardian
— Elder of Ziyon 🇮🇱 (@elderofziyon) February 1, 2021
insists:
1) The Palestinian Authority would threaten anyone who goes there
2) The clinic would be barraged with rocks
3) The PA would go to the UN to condemn the "illegal settlement" pic.twitter.com/euaSLtHNHI
The Israel Defense Forces opened a field hospital at Erez Crossing on July 20, 2014, intending it to be for sick and injured Palestinians from Gaza.The hospital was opened in response to reports by Gazans and news media that the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict had caused a dire shortage of medical facilities in Gaza. The decision to set up the hospital was made by the Israeli government following the recommendation of the coordinator of government activities in the Palestinian territories General Yoav Mordechai, and approved by the IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz.According to Al Jazeera, Israeli soldiers at Erez Crossing attempted to persuade families to take relatives to the field hospital for treatment, rather than making the journey to a Palestinian-run hospital in East Jerusalem. IDF Lt.-Col.Sharon Biton from the office of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories stated that "some" of the refugees passing through the Erez Crossing "refused to get medical treatments" in the Israeli field hospital. The IDF Spokesman's office asserted that Hamas “prevented Palestinians from entering Israel in order to reach the hospital.” A Gazan who asked that his name not be reported told the Jerusalem Post people are reluctant to use the field hospital out of fear Gazans treated in the IDF hospital will come under suspicion by Hamas, which controlled Gaza at the time.The hospital had 20 doctors, nurses and technicians, a lab, an X-ray device and a pharmacy. Among the doctors were a pediatrician, an ophthalmologist and a gynecologist.There was opposition on the Palestinian side to injured civilians receiving treatment in Israel thus the hospital stayed almost empty. Hamas fired ten mortar shells at the hospital.
Monday, February 01, 2021
Elder of Ziyon
COVID-19
The Director General of Support Medical Services at the Ministry of Health, Osama al-Najjar, told Anadolu Agency that the ministry or any other Palestinian party “did not receive” any quantities of the Corona vaccine from Israel.Al-Najjar added, “We have not been informed of the existence of vaccines, and we do not know anything,” indicating that Israel is under international pressure and wants to publish this news to alleviate it.He said that “international institutions and human rights organizations are pressuring Israel to allow vaccinations to enter the occupied Palestinian territories. "
Sunday, January 31, 2021
Sunday, January 31, 2021
Elder of Ziyon
COVID-19
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Elder of Ziyon
COVID-19
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Elder of Ziyon
COVID-19
Thursday, January 21, 2021
Thursday, January 21, 2021
Elder of Ziyon
COVID-19
Monday, January 18, 2021
Monday, January 18, 2021
Elder of Ziyon
COVID-19
Ma'an quotes Israel's Kan News as saying that the Palestinian Authority will bring five thousand Russian Sputnik COVID-19 vaccines into the territories tomorrow.
Sunday, January 17, 2021
Friday, January 15, 2021
Friday, January 15, 2021
Elder of Ziyon
COVID-19, ElderToons
PLO official: We did not ask Israel for vaccines.
— Khaled Abu Toameh (@KhaledAbuToameh) January 15, 2021
Palestinian Authority official: We asked Israel for vaccines.
Friday, January 15, 2021
Elder of Ziyon
COVID-19, media bias
And as you know the United Nations and many human rights groups not to mention the Palestinians themselves have complained bitterly that they are not getting a fair shake when it comes to vaccinations as well. And the Palestinian political leader, also a physician, wrote this in the New York Times."The Israeli government's decision to make the vaccine available only to Israeli citizens is not just a moral injustice, it is self-defeating. Herd immunity will not be achieved for Israelis without vaccinating Palestinians."
I wonder if you were prime minister you would make sure Palestinians on the occupied west bank and in Gaza did actually get fairly treated in these vaccinations as well. It is part of the Oslo accords. It is part of the Geneva Conventions for an occupying power to take care of the medical needs of those citizens.
Christiane, as you know after the Oslo accords and after our withdrawal from the Gaza Strip the vast majority of Palestinians are under Palestinian control. It is the responsibility of the Palestinian authority and the Hamas regime to take care of their residents.We would like to help but we will be able to help only after taking care of our own citizens.CA: Well, I guess that's a pretty severe message to the Palestinians. Do you not think that actually, you know, you are also -- it is a pandemic.GS: I think it is a good message. I think it's a good message. Because I said we are ready to help. We are ready to help. But we will be able to help after taking care for our own citizens. I think that the Palestinian Authority has enough money in order to pay salaries, to terrorists, to murderers, to those who are getting according to the crimes against Israel. They are getting more money.CA: These are different issues.GS: If they have money for that they can take care of their residents.CA: Mr. Saar, these are two different issues These are two very different issues This is a global pandemic.GS: No.
They aren't different issues, because the Palestinian Authority has the cash and the means to get its own vaccines. As such, Israel's responsibility is to make sure that there are no impediments to that happening (which is what Amnesty and other NGOs are actually against!)
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Elder of Ziyon
COVID-19
Israel has provided coronavirus vaccines to the Palestinian Authority, the government said on Tuesday, rolling back its previous claim that the Palestinians have not received any vaccines.The government told the High Court of Justice that a shipment of 100 vaccine doses was provided in response to the Palestinians' request and that another shipment is expected to arrive in about a week and a half. The delivery was approved by Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, according to the government.
According to Ma'an, the vaccines went to medical workers in Palestinian hospitals.
Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative Movement, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti confirmed that, thanks to the Palestinian efforts to expose Israeli policies, a major global campaign was launched against the Israeli policy of apartheid and racial discrimination aimed at denying Palestinians access to vaccines against Corona disease.
Barghouti confirmed the launch of a global signature campaign against the Israeli policy of “ Medical”, demanding the immediate provision of safe vaccines for the Palestinian people.
Tens of thousands of internationals have signed the campaign petition so far, including prominent international doctors and scientists, thinkers and artists such, including Judith Butler, Daniel Barenboim and Noam Chomsky.
He affirmed that the solidarity committees with the Palestinian people have been mobilized in various parts of the globe to participate in this campaign, which is taking place under the slogan of condemning this type of apartheid.
Dr. Barghouti added that the gravity of the Israeli crime of racial discrimination in the matter of providing vaccines and protection from the dangerous Corona disease revealed the reality and truth of the Israeli apartheid regime, which will pay dearly for its criminal denial of human rights and for the necessity of unity and solidarity with humanity in facing epidemics.
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Elder of Ziyon
COVID-19
We express grave concerns about media reports that the Russian-developed vaccine will be delivered to the Palestinian Authority (PA). The PA has not fully indicated which vaccines it aims to purchase and distribute, although it has made clear that it does not have sufficient funds and capabilities to purchase the necessary vaccinations. Israel cannot transfer a vaccine which is not approved for its own citizens. Such a step would violate the Paris Protocol on Economic Relations and the long-standing policy of the Israeli Ministry of Health to only allow the distribution of medicines in the OPT which have undergone the necessary scientific and regulatory procedures. Although the Paris Protocol has come under criticism in the past for, inter alia, obliging the PA to import medications that are beyond its financial reach, as long as it is binding, Israel cannot import a vaccine that it has not approved for its own population and send it to the occupied population. Israel must ensure that the vaccines delivered to Palestinians in the OPT, also meet the approvals of the Israeli health system, and that these vaccines be purchased and delivered as soon as possible.
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