6 minutes agoIsrael also makes politics with coronary vaccines, gives no access to Israelite prisoners
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)Israeli Public Security Minister Amir Ohana's order not to be given vaccines by Covid-19 Palestinian prisoners was discriminated against and, in contrast, with instructions from this country's Ministry of Health, human rights groups have said. Ohana told Israeli prison officials not to offer [...]
Ohana told Israeli prison officials not to offer vaccines to Palestinian prisoners until further notice, and to offer them only to the prison staff.
The prisoners will receive doses later, “compatible with the progress of vaccination with the general public,” said in the statement made Saturday by Israel's first open gay minister, writes RT, translates Periscopi.
This order came after a senior Palestinian official who was dealing with prison cases, Qadri Abu Bakr, announced that the voluntary inoculation of those being held in Israel's prisons would launch “in the coming days”.
On Sunday, the Israeli branch of the physicists for Human Rights rebuked this move by Israeli authorities, calling it “polically motivated”.
The Health Ministry had placed prisoners in the second priority group to receive vaccine doses along with chronically ill patients.
Overload and poor conditions in Israeli prisons have led to the diagnosis of 140 thousand and 400 Palestinian Coronavirus prisoners since the beginning of the pandemic. /Periscope
