The Palestinian Authority launched a vaccination program early this month for frontline medical workers using the 5,000 doses Israel had provided. Israel also agreed last week toIn contrast, Israel has given at leastof its population of 9.3 million, including the 450,000 Israelis living in the occupied West Bank, which is also home to nearly 3 million Palestinians. An additional 2 million Palestinians live in Gaza.
Medic Matthias Kennes, who is part of the Doctors Without Borders COVID-19 response team in Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, said he wants the vaccinations to be more equitable. “Israel is an occupying power and has millions of vaccines. Palestine is the occupied territory and has barely a few thousand vaccines. As a medic, I don’t really care who sorts this out. As a medic, I do care deeply that the most vulnerable are prioritized,” Kennes stated.“To me, health should be beyond politics,” she told The Washington Post. “We and the Israelis, the Lebanese, the Syrians, the Egyptians, we are all in the same region.
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