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Gaza Strip's vaccination campaign kicks off using Russia's Sputnik V
The Gaza Strip's vaccination campaign against Covid-19 began Monday using Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said in a statement. A total of 11,000 people are expected to get both doses of the vaccine over the next three weeks. On Sunday, Mohammad Dahlan - the rival of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas - brokered the shipment of 20,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine to the Strip, donated by the United Arab Emirates. The shipment arrived in Gaza through the Rafah border crossing point with Egypt. A ministry spokesman said that medical staff would be the first ...
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Gaza Strip gets delivery of 20,000 doses of Sputnik V vaccine
Some 20,000 doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19 arrived in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, after being donated by the United Arab Emirates. The vaccines are to be sent immediately to the stores of Gaza's Health Ministry for the vaccination process to start on Monday, according to a ministry spokesperson. The official said medical staff would be the first to get inoculated, followed by patients with chronic diseases and those who have had organ transplants. It is the first large shipment of vaccines to the Gaza Strip, which is run by the radical Islamist Hamas movement, since the out...
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Jerusalem sees rare snow cover as winter storm strikes region
A winter storm has brought snow, hail and rain to Israel and the Palestinian areas, meaning a rare cover of snow for Jerusalem. A blanket of white spread around the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, which date back to the Ottoman Empire era. A thin layer also covered the plaza of the Wailing Wall - the retaining wall of the platform on which the destroyed Jewish Biblical Temple once rested. The Temple Mount, with its al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock, was also covered in white. The West Bank city of Ramallah also witnessed snow. Heavy snow also fell in the Golan Heights. With Israel's thir...
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Gaza Strip receives its first batch of Covid-19 vaccines from Russia
The Gaza Strip received its first batch of vaccines against Covid-19 on Wednesday, health officials in Gaza said. Two thousand doses - or enough to vaccinate 1,000 people - of the Sputnik V vaccine, donated by Russia, were transferred by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank to the Islamist Hamas movement in Gaza, with Israel's approval, an Israeli security official confirmed. The transfer was made via the Kerem Shalom crossing between the south-eastern Gaza Strip and Israel. Majdi Dhair, director of health care in the Hamas-run Health Ministry said on Wednesday that the delivery came fol...
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Arab League chief calls for political process to end Mideast conflict
Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Abul Gheit called on Monday for the establishment of a political process with a clear timeframe to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "We call on the credible and influential international parties, topped by the International Quartet, to exert a real effort to launch a political process," Abul Ghieit told an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo. He added that the process should have a clear timeframe and be founded on the outcome of earlier rounds of negotiations, principles of international law and an Arab peace initiative. He stressed th...
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Israeli soldiers shoot dead alleged Palestinian knife attacker
Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian who they said tried to stab them at a junction in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Health Ministry in Ramallah said it had been informed by the Israeli military that the suspect had died of his gunshot wounds. The Palestinian had attached three knives to a stick and tried to stab soldiers at a bus stop at the Gush Etzion junction, south-east of the Palestinian autonomous city of Bethlehem, the military said. A soldier said he was guarding the bus stop, used by civilian settlers, when the Palestinian ran towards him and pulled out the implement. The so...
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