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already starving in famine like conditions and 2 out of 3 need for humanitarian assistance to dairy i mean is bearing down on yemen the race is on if we want to prevent hunger and starvation from taking millions of lives it is impossible to overstate the severity of the suffering in yemen more than 20000000 yemenis leave humanitarian assistance and protection with women and children among the hardest hit 4000000 people across yemen have been forced from their own homes the recent would your parents even marty obstructions to displace under the thousands more. a former french president nicolas sarkozy has been found guilty of corruption and influence peddling it was jailed for 3 years but despite being the 1st form approach president to receive a custodial sentence sarkozy might not spend

a day in prison 2 years of his sentence were suspended the other year could be spent at home with an electronic tag. ethiopians in the northern region of te grey have told us. about how civilians were tortured and killed by eritrean soldiers last year evidence suggests eritrea sent troops in the government's offensive began last november despite its denials witnesses told hours their they suffered abuses that could amount to war crimes. just as returned to me in ma streets the day after 18 were killed in a major escalation of the military crackdown police and military fired tear gas to try to end the demonstrations and prosecutors have filed 2 new criminal charges against deposed civilian leader aung san suu kyi a court appearance by video link was the 1st time she's been seen in public since her arrest. the stream is next looking at how palestinians in the occupied west bank and gaza coping with a career of

r us boys after that i feel. high after me ok on today's episode of the stream the are talking to palestinians about the impact of the covert 19 pandemic on gaza and the west bank what is needed to tackle a very serious public health crisis that is one question i'm still you have many people you know what to do with you what she when you write jump into the comment section and be part of today's program.

i am going to say hello to the guests the guests will say hello to you how you are a doctor some other we and nice to see you yeah right tell our international audience who you are and what you did. well hi jamie thanks for having us and i'm dr e. r f e m a post doctoral scholar at the university of central florida and i will be a fulbright scholar to the west bank hopefully next year and assuming we can travel next year. hopefully dr as well welcome to the stream tell everybody who you love what you do. for me thank you for having us please call me all summer but the attrition i'm a children's doctor usually based on how far and our public health scholars and now i am on our fellowship that to embody university in public health and health policy is thank you so much welcome rest am i we have to tell you what he and what. hi my name is graham who are there i'm an assistant professor at the institute of

community and public health at that is that university in the west bank oh i teach in the masters and public health program and i also do research related to go. nice to have you everybody i'm going to say right at the top of this discussion that i reached out to the ministry of defense in israel wanted to get in touch with the unit that coordinates activities in and the will being of palestinian students in palestinian authority and the israeli authorities that unit is the coordinator of government activities in the territories we asked them if they were consciously using a statement some element that we can bring in to stay shut we haven't heard back from them yet if i get something for the end of the show i promise i will share it with you where should we start let me start in gaza city where the vaccination campaign was rolling outs and separated 22nd have a look at this. was.

was we in the gaza strip have started the vaccine campaign against covered 19 we have started with health workers and the campaign will continue as we receive 22000 doses in gaza and i was. josey chief 1000 doses of summer how many which you guessed i'm an educated guess is needed fruit all of the areas where palestinians are to keep them healthy and safe. ok hi for me 1st of all it's very good to remind our audience when we talk about israel palestine where are these geographical unit located it's you know these artificial geographical unit the gaza strip is an artificially created unit by israeli occupation it's basically a very small piece of land that houses more than 2000000 population most of them out of refugees that cannot return to their home countries the same about the west

bank you know it's infused with this settlements that are part of the israeli system and with the annexation problem it with an accession going ahead. you know these will be part of the israeli sovereignty so it's important to understand that the west bank and gaza strip and not to you know and dependent geographical unit and then they don't have any access to port or airport and then there are you know an israel for the entrance of anything a fairfax a national. and so on so vague as it's a very crowded place with over $2000000.00 population of course $22000.00 this is just a joke. if you want that but this this seems to me this sort of push and pull between israeli authorities in the palestinian authority in terms of what happens next in it we show you an idea of this back here so we have is you help that shipment of russian sputnik that seem to gaza next headline palestinians begin kind of vaccinations and occupy breske west bank what is happening here and we are talking

about potentially life and death and even the extreme politics that we know happens in this region that's even playing out when anyone does it there is no border because it. right absolutely you know and this is what happens you know 50 years into an occupation and 30 years after the signing of the oslo accords which was an interim deal that was meant to lead to a palestinian state within 5 years which would have been you know the year 2000 and i think we all are aware that that hasn't happened you know if you're looking at the legal basis putting aside practicalities and moral obligations all human rights scholars all human rights entities civil society throughout the west bank gaza and israel put the onus of this on israel israel is the occupying power all international bodies recognize this israel's own supreme court reaffirmed this in

a court case from just last summer so this just push and pull is really. merrily israeli politicians and ministers and defenders from outside of israel who simply don't want to vaccinate palestinians they want to maintain this illusion that a neighboring state who needs charity and kind of dissociate themselves from that again 50 year occupation and say that they don't have this legal duty because of the oslo accords well this question has been asked and answered many times especially since november when the her sex scenes were starting to arrive in israel and you know for them to still be pushing back at this point now as they're shipping vaccines to countries a 1000 miles away they're starting to actually teenagers meanwhile we have higher risk than the end elderly palestinians who don't even know when they're going to get their vaccines it's estimated that many palestinians won't be able to receive the vaccine at all in 2021. so let me share with.

your head i'm going. to come of the comment he's run. well more than half of israelis have now received a covert vaccination that's not a fraction of percentage of palestinians in the west bank and gaza have received the same that's deeply inequitable so a young and healthy israeli living in illegal west bank settlement may have received a chap but not a vulnerable or elderly palestinian on the same occupied land the palestinian health system simply doesn't have the resources it needs to sustain its response long term nor to provide the rapid comprehensive and equitable system of vaccination needed to recover from the pandemic international or it's incredibly clear israel remains the occupying power and as such must control power since can access vaccines and they also of course don't stop it of that duty. exactly so it's really works on exporting the illusion that palestine as the other said is a neighboring country in need of charity while israel tightly controlled of the

borders of of the occupied palestinian territory and also it continuously defines these borders you know we're building settlements expanding settlements so on so you have this absurd situation where a settler living in the west bank has all the access to a vaccination and healthcare simply because he is jewish you know a jewish settler with an israeli passport so he has access to all the vaccination verses the vast majority or like a philistine and that's just the west bank gaza how can possibly gaza get its own vaccination if it has to go through israel and israel is the ruling by the it is the militant occupier of the entire region of. israel west bank and gaza and it has the obligation and duty to facts in it all palestinians whatsoever but it continuously. swings between saying that i have no obligation towards the palestinian to saying that i will fulfill some of my humanitarian duties without

really defining what are these humanitarian obligations or you know they're not even humanitarian that political obligations to any occupying power. we can you bring and people real people and salaries in this conversation because we could tell politics for the whole 25 mi and not really get into what does this mean for a family's and people and people's lives if we're struggling to get vaccines to them and i've actually said not that far away. and many think before i do that i actually want to say a prayer related to what sam i just said and you know israel talks about you know israel does act like it's not an occupying power like. and then kind of you know assumes that the accords actually takes away the stress responsibility and you know we know that it doesn't but there is another issue what we're seeing right now these under-resourced health system the structural issues there is that we're actually experiencing are not new to just only become more pronounced and we're

paying more attention to them because of the global pandemic and i think this is really important to keep in mind and israel also controls like every minute facet of daily life and i think this is something that like we all need to remember because it controls what can actually go in and it happened with testing kids it's happening with axioms we saw a little while ago that the vaccines were not. there and i thought he was trying to send them. i mean and it's not only not actually abiding by its responsibilities it's preventing me more who are actually trying to solve the problem and how the billions are seeing that we have people believing because you all agree about how this is unethical and it's you know a good idea so i take that i need that now tell people. yeah and i think people are very frustrated because they see the systems there they're having to face this pandemic under incredible fragility that's a result of like the structural problems that patient and sat there colonialism

their resources are extracted by the israeli state taxes are collected by the way every facet of life is actually controlled but palestinians don't get any of these benefits and what they're having to deal with are more and more obstacles and so we're seeing more pronounced economic impacts we have a very weak political system or a government system that can actually provide the kinds of social protections that israeli citizens and people see that and i think this is another part of the frustration. and mental and at the same time in their dealing with coded and they're also dealing with threats of annexation then confiscation if we go back to un office for the nation of humanitarian assistance if you look at the demolition record there was an agreement early on in 2020 that no demolitions would occur during the pandemic 2020 was a peak year and terms of demolitions so instead of people actually having access to

very high asian and sanitation infrastructure their homes were demolished. and the economy was already a captive economy it's only in a situation and where it's become a lot more reliant on the israeli economy so you have the surplus they brought for us. use that israel's well and when it's convenient when it's not convenient and this is also another issue that's coming up with us and asians sometimes they say that they're going to vaccinate work or sometimes they're not going to x. and it workers and there is a lot of pick harry like there is you know and it's very hard to actually plan a day to day. and this is. actual economic and other aspects of daily life. i might also add to that that israel is not only diminishing houses in the west bank also for the palestinians living inside israel so if you look at the be doing . unity in the south in the now when you have a tens of thousands of people living in and recognized villages israel just like you know last week demolished it once again at our village so when people are struggling literally you know to get to

a water sanitation hygiene proper house in israel demolishes house is inside its own borders for the palestinian community inside that. and you know when we hear you talking about life on the ground and i just want any you know there was a report from the united nations in 20 well it would be unlivable by 2020 and this was pretty home in fact 3 vaccines into may and so this is the environment that code would enter an environment that was already deemed on remember by human rights groups yes you have established a case for why vaccines and good health care needs to be in gaza and the west bank occupied territories and you have made that case let's look at what is happening in terms of look here on my laptop israel to vaccinate palestinian laborers against because it 19 that is because the business is themselves pushed for that to happen because they didn't want their workers to come into work sick so that's the economy saying we need them. here and that's also as after pressure didn't give it from the

beginning. so that you know it will vaccinate asylum seekers refugees people that have that and the undocumented refugees except for palestinian they're literally issued a statement by the ministry of health that it will vaccinate anyone it's inside it's that authority that is undocumented except for palestinians so that also included workers or people who are you know families that are partially one with israeli id one with us in an idea who are an artist so it really divided that racially and ethnically and then afterwards after pressure from human rights group managed to evacuate only people that they can exploit right so if that is. what occurs really palestinian workers in construction because a full day for israeli construction you know businesses the palestinians are a captive market you know you have these millions of people who you control that

that have very limited options of job options that have to work and sometimes in building itself and building settlements you know and then as to control that. it will want to to vaccinate that but also after pressure it didn't come at the knees . in the family i think it's important for the audience to know that most of the exports from palestine are to israel and so israel has not only use its power to mean workers but most of the agricultural output the stone that is mined in palestine a lot of that goes to israel so at the beginning of the pandemic israeli politicians were in fact predicting an expedited rate of construction and building and economic development during rock downs because people weren't leaving their houses depending on that and you know labor i saw while the palestinian economy was at a standstill israel was still able to reap those benefits so some are mentioned just a moment ago the pressure being put on israeli authorities to back sneak palestinians

they will show you what the pressure can do but from the palestinian territories and from overseas palestinians condemn israel's move the same vaccines overseas and then nice this headline this is new for this week is your oil suspends plan to give covert that seems to allies abroad before most palestinians let me take you to a scene in east jerusalem and this is just in the past few days or produced palestinians are getting vaccinated take a look at. the bottom of her head are looking forward to having we want to do we have oxy install the people in jerusalem because a very important we know the vaccines here in the mosque. in your will and i have a palestinian id and i have a residency and israel we thank those people this enables the vaccination for us so

we can get vaccinated because we can go to the west bank to get vaccinated god bless them every person should get the vaccine against this pandemic the normal. student i started this show i say so how do you i guess see the way forward in terms of how do you tackle this major public health crisis we have and he starts. so i think you know he started off with international pressure and i think there needs to be more international pressure from there and as a veil in order for it to actually abide by its responsibilities and i think yetto probably have more to say on this point but what i'll also talk about is that we need to also focus on the health system the health system has been under-resourced a large part of that has also been because of the structural barriers created. agreements that also you know continue to put palestinians. create this codependent relationship between palestinians and israeli occupation so you're also at the

mercy of the israelis constantly so we see this man that's thankful that he's getting other axion but at the same time it's not you know and it's not just like this humanitarian gesture from the israelis like this is a responsibility these are people that have lost their lands themselves their livelihoods. and there is also been a lot of the development and you know there are others the air i have talked about this in the context of us. and what we need to do is we need to refocus and actually shifting to towards a more developmental view and building institutions building and also holding as you're accountable and holding the palestinian authority accountable to their people as well you may think you also don't it's nice that you mention jerusalem it is a specific case you know east jerusalem was occupied in 1067 just like the west bank and gaza strip and the good in height but then israel gave shooters and i might a specific until you can look at the head and he you know of that of papers and citizenship with some people in jerusalem they are not israeli citizens they are

residents and then they have to continuously prove that they are actually part of the city that they were you know as a free that applying for a green card they have to continuously improve that so the i'd provide health care by the israeli health care system but because simply you know israel controls their land and they pay taxes for that right so it's not a charity or anyone. they pay taxes. to israel but we are what we saw in the beginning of the pandemic israel didn't put any testing centers in the palestinian neighborhoods in east jerusalem and when the pm starting putting test and center as i simply demolished it so it's really treated it as a community that you know i don't want to test you but i don't want you to get to services by other providers you know and so jerusalem is a very specific and but and peculiar case and also it of course the health care the x. axis and delivery in jerusalem is way worse if you compare it western resident to east jerusalem so i guess there was so many questions for you and i you comment sections

of it this is the speed round i'm going to ask a question you're not really quickly no pressure all right this is from sin yet where is the un when the getting involved in vaccination for the palestinians i. think that is about to start a young he's not the well the u.n. has you know issued statements but i mean ultimately the u.n. is a political body and they are they run by the support of member states so the u.n. is not going to you know i mean they have agents use for refugees they have agencies for specific population groups but it's not their responsibility to be the one procuring distributing and disseminating the vaccines to palestinians and they are doing what they should be during which is calling on israel to fill its duties . 2 questions about kovacs and some are put these teen clovis is asking about kovacs which he rightly says is the international initiative to vaccinate the globe

more equitably and so he's asking about that what about how thanks and vinicius says the same thing do you guys think the u.n. coverts program or actually have a quick and substantial impact on the palestinian cause the crisis that was what it was designed to do yeah exactly for populations in the global south of again this doesn't relieve from oblique implication israel is the one responsible but i think it's part of the kovacs i think we may know what information you know about the p.s.c. merely to get a spark neck. so if kovacs the way it works is that they're supposed to provide 20 percent of the need for vaccinations and that's that would alleviate but it's not coming and quickly enough the 1st step is expected sometime in march but it's going to be a pretty small shipment and there's a larger shipment later on but at the same time what we're seeing in especially yesterday and the day before there had been warnings by the ministry of health and

others that we're entering the 3rd phase and it's actually more dangerous than these new variants that were discovered like in the u.k. in. south africa are also found here and so the spread has been increasing quite dramatically in the last couple of days compared to a few weeks ago and so what we've had is they can last for months there's been almost a year billing of. cases and these are the ones that we know of and there is a there is a shortage of testing and estimations are that the actual numbers are much higher than what's actually reported so it's important and it would alleviate some of that burden but it's not happening quickly enough and it won't be at the scale that actually needed. this is right and just to ngos at l.a.x. is only meant to vaccinate 20 percent of the palestinian population so even if that entire shipment arrives tomorrow you still have you know 80 percent minus health care workers with no immediate vaccine. i love these questions he just bluntly

do the consumers have any friends in the health authority or of health authority like let's just say she monetary and after that seems such a sweet thing to think i'm put out thank you sam least. you know and we reject that . you don't have to chip between occupy it and occupied again these are not to a neighboring countries that are trying to establish something we have a country that military 1st of all you know the israeli basically created the west bank and gaza strip. you know as a geographical unit as an occupied unit they did not exist in the past and israel exposed the listing as you know most of the people that were not talking about refugees the most of the palestinians are refugees or that and lebanon syria and other neighboring countries and then it continued to occupy these places so of course we don't want what we are arguing for is not a friendly relationship between occupier and occupied in order to is that we are talking for the fulfillment of duties which we would like to see in the future as

the couldn't exemption as you know and tell you of the colonization of the region. and we're no doubt friendly relations. i know it now as if i say listen i want to say this because all right at the end of the show one sentence guy that i was going to say like we say in public health like you know these references to from the just areas would only maybe alleviate some of the symptoms but they would not actually cure the disease and if we want real change we need to adjust the structural issues. and who knows when that may well happen i don't know what the code of 90 might be the push in not direction. yara osama. thank you so much huge she has such an amazing array of questions and debate and discussion really appreciate you find on today's us on twitter and this is what he shared with us from a very simple when we were talking to him about the shimmy and she disclosed down

here so we were talking about israel we also are colds responsibility of code 19 a vaccination this is what pfizer insists to sleep here medical apartheid. thank you guests appreciate you thank you change this appreciate you for me ok signing off from the home edition steams yet i see next time take you. let's take you straight to the state department and the u.s. and israel to everything that's happening right now found disagreements these countries in many cases are. competitors in some cases some of our staunchest competitors in some cases they are adversaries and in most of those cases we do not have sanctions on their leadership i think what i

would say to your question and this gets back to what i was referring to at the top we have talked about this in terms of our partnership with saudi arabia as a recalibration it's not a rupture and i would contend that by making the point that. it is undeniable that saudi arabia is a hugely influential country in the arab world in and beyond what happens in saudi arabia will and has had profound implications well beyond saudi arabia's borders to be sure that the choices that riyadh makes will have outsized implications for the region and outsized implication for countries in the region and countries beyond the region including for the united states our goal in all of this matter is to be able to shape those choices

going forward that's why we have talked about this not as a rupture but a recalibration to ensure that we retain that influence in what we need for our own interests to be a partnership forget that but. it's not correct that the united states has historically not imposed sanctions on countries or leaders of countries that there are clear are limited exceptions to that but they are exceptional because precisely because they are 3 things i just named for 6 countries plus 2 that you close down the embassies and then there are other countries and i need not name them you know them with whom we have adversarial relate. steps or competitive relationship where you don't have diplomatic relations with them so i just. that argument i'm trying to get you to say that you acknowledge that argument is that i would i would rather not argue about a rather picayune point i would rather talk about what i think that is pick.