Activists Urge WHO to Make ‘Israeli’ Govt Stop Blocking COVID-19 Vaccines to Palestine

By Staff, Agencies

An NGO named ‘Combatants for Peace’ has written to the World Health Organization [WHO] head Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, asking him to make sure the Zionist government does not block the supply of COVID-19 vaccines to Palestine any longer.

Ever since the Zionist entity began its vaccination drive, it has kept Palestinians out of the process almost entirely. Even within the organization, the letter to Ghebreyesus says, ‘Israeli’ members have all been vaccinated while Palestinian members wait endlessly. Nearly five million Palestinians live in Gaza and the West Bank.

In the letter, the activists say that the ‘Israeli’ regime is not following obligations under international law. “Until now the ‘Israeli’ government agreed to transfer to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank only a few thousand vaccines, predominantly for health workers,” it reads.

The Tel Aviv regime has the means to vaccinate Palestinians as well, but is choosing not to do so, the letter continues. “Also, it is absolutely clear that the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank or Hamas in the Gaza Strip do not have the political and economic bargaining power to compete in the global vaccine market. As is well known, there are even EU countries that complain about the rate of vaccines delivery to their own citizens.”

The ‘Israeli’ occupation government is denying Palestinians the vaccine for purely political reasons, the activists state. “‘Israel’ is in the midst of an election campaign, and there is strong opposition in the electorate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the right-wing parties to any minimal humanitarian and human gesture to the Palestinians.”

The WHO needs to intervene, the letter says, against the “discriminatory, illegal and immoral policies” of the ‘Israeli’ government.