People are tested for the coronavirus by healthcare workers at a testing center, set up on a basketball court, in Ramat Gan, Israel
ISRAEL was accused of racism and health apartheid today over the exclusion of millions of Palestinians from its much-lauded coronavirus vaccine roll-out.
The Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Council (PHROC) and the Palestinian NGOs Network (PNGO) issued a joint statement condemning the deliberate omission of Palestinians in the occupied territories from the programme, which started on December 19.
“[Israel’s] occupying authorities have implemented its vaccine policy in a discriminatory, unlawful and racist manner by completely disregarding its obligations to Palestinian healthcare,” the statement said.
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