Everyone is cheering Israel's vaccination drive. Meanwhile in Palestine...

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Israel has managed to vaccinate nearly 4.2 million people with a first dose – that’s around 50 per cent of the population – and 2.8 million people with the full two doses – that’s more than 30 per cent of the population.

Meanwhile, only several thousand doses are available in the Palestinian West Bank, and a delivery of 20,000 reported to have arrived last weekend in Gaza scarcely scratches at the surface of the needs. At a generous maximum, assuming that the 35,000 reported Sputnik and Moderna vaccines are all available, that would be around 0.8 percent of the Palestinian population.

www.msf.org/stark-inequality-covid-19-vaccination-between-israel-and-palestine

Yes this is dreadful albeit I would have more surprised if they had actually made a decent number of vaccines available to the Palestinian people.

I agree, the world shouldn’t be lauding their achievements when that total abuse is ongoing.

I wasn't aware people were lauding their achievement. Israel is just interesting to watch to see how effective their vacc strategy is to getting them 'back to normal'.

The huge weak point is their reliance on Palestinian labour, obvs. Israel is generally a very internationally connected country. How are they going to manage virus imports, will their vacc rollout to residents be adequate by itself to give them resilience against new imports? Plus Israel has a lot of its own resident 'hard to reach' populace, some of whom communities have low vacc uptake. It's a decent microcosm for what might happen to other countries.