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February 3, 2021

Healthcare Workers in West Bank Receive Vaccines from Israel While Other Palestinians Made to Wait
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Coronavirus vaccinations have started in the occupied West Bank after
Israel transferred the first batch of a total of 5,000 doses to
inoculate frontline Palestinian health workers, after coming under fire
for refusing to share its vaccines with Palestinians. This is a West
Bank resident commenting on the arrival of vaccines.

Aisha Salem: "The vaccine is good, but they are only giving it to the
healthcare workers, not to the public."

The Occupied Territories are also expecting to receive 37,000 doses of
the Pfizer-Bio NTech vaccine through the World Health Organization's
COVAX scheme in mid-February.

In the U.S., freshman New York Congressmember Jamaal Bowman called on
Israel to vaccinate all Palestinians. He wrote, "As a Black man living
in America, I know the feeling of being neglected by my government, and
society, of feeling like a second-class citizen or not a citizen at
all."


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