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MPs call on government to pressure Israel into vaccinating 4.5 million occupied Palestinians
A Palestinian woman checks the nylon cover on the roof of her house on a rainy day in a poor neighbourhood of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip

MPs are calling on the British government to press Israel to fulfil its legal and moral obligations to vaccinate 4.5 million Palestinians living under its brutal occupation. 

Israel is withholding the vaccine from millions of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank while vaccinating its own population, including illegal Israeli settlers, at one of the fastest rates of any country in the world. 

Nottingham East Labour MP Nadia Whittome tabled a Parliamentary early-day motion last week calling for the British government to “use all diplomatic and foreign aid routes to address this disparity.”

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