Families of terrorist prisoners get priority for Coronavirus vaccines from the PA

Official PA TV program Corona - Measures and Prevention

PA Ministry of Health Spokesman Kamel Al-Shakhra: “The [Coronavirus] vaccinations have been given in order and according to the international and global instructions by age groups and groups of sick people… and now the work has gradually begun on [vaccinating people] over age 65 in some of the districts, and afterwards [the age of those receiving the vaccine] will gradually decrease. We are waiting for the arrival of other vaccines to Palestine in the coming days… There were also instructions from Her Honor [PA] Minister of Health [Mai Al-Kaila] to give [vaccines] to the families of the heroic prisoners, whom we of course consider a crown on all our heads. The provision [of vaccines] began today [April 1, 2021] in the Ramallah district, and in the rest of the homeland’s districts the work will be carried out gradually until completion for all the prisoners’ families, so that they will be able to gradually visit their relatives [the prisoners].”

Director of the Jericho District Health Department Dr. Saleh Hawash: “We will vaccinate – it was agreed with these [pharmaceutical] companies to import these vaccines. We will give them consecutively according to groups and according to the- Of course, we need to give [vaccines to] the prisoners’ relatives. As we noted, the Israeli occupation is conditioning the visits of the prisoners’ families on them receiving the vaccine.”

Official PA TV host: “There is a question here, will the Jericho Health [Department] begin to prepare to vaccinate the prisoners’ families?”

Saleh Hawash: “Currently we have begun to give them-”

Host: “Today they began in Ramallah.”

Saleh Hawash: “Yes, right, in the Jericho district we have begun to give them [vaccines]. Contact was made with the [PA] Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs so that we would be given a list of first degree relatives, so that they will be vaccinated and be able to visit their relatives soon. Allah willing, we have begun giving them these vaccines.”

[Official PA TV, Corona - Measures and Prevention, April 1, 2021]