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  • We've been hearing a lot about how Israel's giving out vaccines against covert faster than any other country.

  • But the Palestinians have bean slow just to get supplies.

  • All around the world, there are vaccine haves and have nots.

  • But this is one of the starkest examples because people here live on work closely together.

  • It's a complicated picture.

  • Okay, I've come to one of the best Palestinian hospitals, but it's in East Jerusalem, part of the Palestinian territories annexed by Israel and under its full control.

  • So here Israel is vaccinating Doctor Fadi on the rest of the medical staff, but not the patients who come from across the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

  • So now that the vaccination program started, do you feel a bit of a sense of relief?

  • There's more protection for you and your staff.

  • Not that much, really.

  • Why not?

  • I got the vaccine, but I'm not relief.

  • We were not able toe deliver vaccination to our patients, tow our families back in the West Bank and Gaza.

  • There is a problem of inequality.

  • You don't feel happy that you are getting the vaccination on other parts of your people cannot.

  • What makes him feel worse is that the health care systems in other Palestinian areas are struggling so much more.

  • There's a hot debate about who should be vaccinating Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

  • Those who think it's Israel's responsibility point to the Geneva Conventions.

  • Those who say it's up to the Palestinian Authority look to the Oslo accords.

  • It all adds to the long list of unresolved issues that experts on international law disagree on here.

  • So we've come from Jerusalem into Tamala through the Israeli checkpoint.

  • Over here, I noticed a lot of people without masks here in the West Bank.

  • Even though infection rates are high and many people are wary of being vaccinated, Manal is one of them, even though she's seen all her acting work dry up.

  • There is a kind of this discrimination, because in the end we are so much in connection and connection with the Israelis, either by people working there or in on your daily life.

  • They are controlling our everyday life.

  • So it is M for that.

  • They got the vaccine, and we are not.

  • We get the vaccine as soon as you can.

  • I'm not with the conspiracy theory at all.

  • I know that there is a virus.

  • I know that it is scientifically and medically approved.

  • But with the vaccine, I don't know if if I want to take it or not.

  • The Palestinian Authority says Israel has a duty to give vaccines to Palestinians, but it's not officially asking for them.

  • It's politicians don't want to look weak as though they can't handle this crisis.

  • The Hamas government in Gaza doesn't want to look weak, either.

  • Technically, the Palestinian Authority should be sending it vaccines.

  • But it's also asking Qatar for help.

  • Yeah, but this building site, the nuts and bolts of the situation are seen very differently.

  • Raoul relies on workers from the West Bank and is pushing for Israel to vaccinate them.

  • They're essential to both economies.

  • We're depending on 65,000 Palestinian workers.

  • They are walking in the court, jobs off the construction, and we need them because without them we cannot construct.

  • Now I think this is logic that also we have toe vaccine, the Israelis, people and also the Palestinians.

  • That a twist that they're working with us when you're putting your argument to the Israeli government about the Palestinian workers What do you say?

  • First of all, the human?

  • Okay?

  • Because they are our neighbors and they are not in a very good condition.

  • Economically conditioned Mohammed is from heaven.

  • He's been staying in Israel away from his home and his family for months so he can keep his job into the deck at the time.

  • So on Arab, the Palestinians are working with the World Health Organization on doing some of their own vaccine deals.

  • Israel says it's prioritizing its own citizens, but it isn't ruling out vaccinating more Palestinians already.

  • It's giving doses to prisoners in its jails.

  • Doctors say it makes sense for herd immunity.

  • We are living together.

  • We are.

  • We almost have no borders.

  • If we vaccinate, the Israelis undertook vaccinated Palestinian people in West Bank and Gaza.

  • You still cannot break the chain off infection.

  • You cannot fight the pandemic very well.

  • This pandemics bean revealing Israel's international connections.

  • It's money, it's reputation for science.

  • All helped it to get vaccines, while the Palestinians, relatively poor, stateless and a lot less organized, have bean at a big disadvantage.

We've been hearing a lot about how Israel's giving out vaccines against covert faster than any other country.

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