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February 16, 2021

Palestinians Say Israel Has Halted Shipment of Vaccines to Gaza Strip
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Palestinian authorities say Israel has halted the shipment of 2,000
doses of COVID-19 vaccine to the Gaza Strip, where they were due to be
administered to frontline medical workers. The besieged territory is
home to more than 2 million people but has yet to receive any vaccine.

This comes as Israeli health officials reported a nearly 95% drop in
symptomatic coronavirus infections among 600,000 Israelis who received
Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine. About 30% of Israeli citizens have received
at least one vaccine dose - the highest rate of any major nation - but
that figure excludes Palestinians in the Occupied Territories who remain
largely unvaccinated.


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