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Mar. 9, 2021
A Palestinian man died on Monday in a fire in his home in a Jerusalem neighborhood, after Israeli soldiers prevented a firetruck from passing through the Qalandiyah checkpoint to reach Kafr Aqab, located in Jerusalem s municipal borders but on the Palestinian side of the separation barrier.
The fire broke out in the Dola family’s home in the early morning, seemingly from an electrical short circuit in a heater’s electric cord. Ahmad, 34, woke up and went to the neighbors to call for help, and then returned home in an attempt to rescue his wife and two-month-old son.
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The center’s opening is part of a broad vaccination campaign MDA is conducting in predominantly Arab East Jerusalem in an effort to curb the worrisome rate of infection there. After months in which the ultra-Orthodox community suffered high infection rates and topped the charts in the capital, in recent days it is the east part of the city that has seen a sharp rise in new cases. On Monday, 31 percent of the coronavirus tests from the Arab neighborhoods were positive, while on Tuesday it was 27 percent. Of the 680 new cases in Jerusalem on Tuesday, 294 were from East Jerusalem. There are 86 COVID-19 patients from East Jerusalem in the city’s hospitals.