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Violation of the Right of Palestinians in The Occupied Territories to Get Vaccinated for Covid-19

>> Read the full Policy Paper THE RIGHT TO VACCINE: Violation of the Right of Palestinians in The Occupied Territories to Get Vaccinated

The Zulat Institute calls on Israel’s leadership to fulfill its legal and moral obligation to vaccinate all Palestinians in the Occupied Territories under its control.

This policy paper touches on the acute gap between the state of corona vaccination in Israel (among the world’s highest) and in the Occupied Territories, and with different aspects of Israel’s non-compliance with its commitment to provide vaccines to the Palestinians. 

Its publication comes a few days after the ceasefire signed in recent days after yet another round of fighting with Hamas that claimed the lives of many and inflicted much damage. 

As a result of the enormous damage caused by the Israeli bombings, it will now be even more difficult for the Gazan population to prevent infection and manage the pandemic.

Now more than ever, in light of the vast destruction it inflicted and to prevent the death of many more people, Israel must fulfill its commitment to vaccinate the Palestinians under its control. Rehabilitating Gaza is not just Israel’s humanitarian duty, but also part of what might prevent another round of fighting in the near future.   

In addition, totally unconnected to the last round of fighting, in view of the fact that it has the capacity and resources, and as part of its commitment as the occupying power, Israel must immediately proceed to ensure the fulfillment of the right to health and to a dignified life of all residents of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, and see to it that they are given the opportunity to be vaccinated. 

The demand to provide vaccines to the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories is in no way connected to our unequivocal call to lift the siege on Gaza and put an end to Israel’s control over it and the rest of the Occupied Territories. However, as long as the occupation continues, Israel must fulfill its commitment to vaccinate all human beings under its rule, and all the more so in the wake of the great destruction it inflicted in recent days in the Gaza Strip.

 

 

 

 

 

http://en.zulat.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Violation-of-the-right-of-Palestinians-to-vaccine-ENG-May-2021.pdf

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Dr. Maha Sabbah Karkabi

 

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Tel Aviv University (2015), a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London (2015-2016), a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Sociology at Tel Aviv University (2016-2017), and a postdoctoral fellowship Ph.D. at the Humphrey Institute for Social Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (2018-2020).
Dr. Maha Karbahi’s areas of interest focus on the connection between social change, family behavior, and gender inequality in societies in the process of change and specifically in Palestinian Arab society in Israel. Her research draws attention to the study of family life and employment, using a combined “ethnic lens” and “gender lens” and paying attention to the perspective of Palestinian Arab women, a group characterized by intersections between multiple marginal locations, which over the years has remained hidden from the research eye. Dr. Karkabi-Sabah’s research is published in professional journals and chapters in scientific books that are considered pioneers in family research, work, and gender equality.

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Prof. Frances Raday

Professor Emeritus in the Lieberman Chair in Labor Law, in the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University and serves as a full professor in the College of Management’s academic track, where she also serves as chair of the graduate program and as honorary president of the Concord Center for International Law Absorption. Radai was a member of a working group of the UN Human Rights Council on discrimination against women. In addition, she is a prominent and feminist human rights activist.

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Dr. Rawia Aburabia 

Faculty member of Sapir Academic College’s School of Law, received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research deals with the interface between law, gender, minorities, and human rights. Has published in leading journals on the subject of the matrimonial laws pertaining to Muslim women in Israel. Her book Under the Law, Outside Justice: Polygamy, Gendered Citizenship, and Colonialism in Israeli Law is expected to be published as part of the Gender Series of Kibbutz Meuhad Publishing House.

Dr. Aburabia has extensive experience in international human rights and public law. She has worked as a jurist for the Association for Civil Right and has been invited as a specialist to address such international forums as the United Nations and the European Parliament on the subject of indigenous communities and minority rights. She has interned with Human Rights Watch in Washington DC, and has been a member of the executive board of Amnesty International. In 2018, she was selected by the magazine Globes as one of the 40 most promising young persons in Israel under the age of 40.

 

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Ron Kessler

With over two decades of experience in the field of digital content, Ron has participated in numerous political and social campaigns. He helped run the digital activity of senior public officials, and worked in various NGOs. Ron is a fundamentally optimistic man, who believes that Israel can be changed and so can people. Lives in Tel Aviv.