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Middle East: Israelis vaccinated at 60%, Palestinians under 1%

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On the one hand, the first country in the world for the percentage of people vaccinated. On the other, an Administration that is still not a State (if it ever will be), practically without vaccines.

On the one hand, the population celebrates the collapse of the infections, pours into the streets, fills the newly reopened restaurants, cinemas and sports centers. On the other hand, intensive therapies are full, now collapsing, however insufficient to cope with a surge in infections which apparently cannot be curbed.

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Israelis and Palestinians. Two very different peoples destined to live in a patch of land next to each other. In some cases, one among the other, such as in the hundreds of Israeli settlements built in the heart of the West Bank, where nearly 400,000 Israelis live surrounded by Palestinians.

West Bank, Covid-19 emergency never so high

In the beginning, the Palestinian Territories, 5.2 million people between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, seemed to have emerged unscathed from the early stages of the pandemic, when Covid-19 took the world by surprise. Especially the Gaza Strip. The Israeli embargo taken in 2007 (accompanied by the one to the south imposed by Egypt) has effectively sealed the Strip. And if on the one hand it has stifled trade and the free movement of people – not a few Palestinians define Gaza as “an open-air prison” – on the other it has proved to be one of the best lockdowns in the world.

However, things have changed. The West Bank has been hit by a new wave of Coronavirus. Made more serious by a practically absent vaccination campaign (which started a few days ago) which covered only minimally, and therefore completely insufficiently, local health workers. “Since the beginning of February, infections have grown exponentially – says Chiara Lodi, head of medical projects of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in the West Bank – from Hebron – We as Doctors Without Borders operate in the center at the Palestinian hospital in Dura, in Hebron , the largest in the southern West Bank. We have 80 beds and 29 intensive care, all of which are occupied ».

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