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February 24, 2021

Lebanese Lawmakers Accused of Vaccine Line Cutting; Rabbis Call on Israel to Vaccinate Palestinians
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In Lebanon, scandal has erupted, and the World Bank threatened to
suspend financing for the country's vaccination program, after a group
of lawmakers received shots inside the Parliament building ahead of
people who were registered on priority lists.

Over 200 members of the rabbinical human rights organization T'ruah are
calling on the Israeli government to distribute coronavirus vaccines to
Palestinians, citing the moral and legal imperative to vaccinate all
residents of the Occupied Territories.


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