Judge Ram Winograd of the Jerusalem District Court
Judge Ram Winograd of the Jerusalem District Court on Sunday rejected the request of a group of disabled people and the right-wing human rights organization B’Tsalmo to submit a friend of the court brief in the case of the construction of access to the handicapped at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.
The defense ministry approved the plan to provide handicapped access to the Cave of the Patriarchs, but the Jordanian Waqf, together with (convicted terrorist who murdered six Jews in 1980 and later became) Hebron Mayor Tayseer Abu Sneineh, petitioned the Jerusalem District Court in its capacity as an Administrative Court to block access project.
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A street coffee vendor walks by closed shops amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in the West Bank town of Hebron on December 11, 2020 (HAZEM BADER / AFP)
The Palestinian Authority announced a two-week closure in the entire West Bank Thursday evening, after three weeks of tightening restrictions failed to curb the coronavirus outbreak among its residents.
“We know that lockdown has a negative impact on the economy. When we’re given the choice between the lives of you and your loved ones, and between financial profits generated by economic activities, we absolutely chose the former,” PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said in a statement to the populace.
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Palestinian Authority Health Minister Mai al-Kaila briefs reporters in Ramallah on Wednesday, December 10, 2020 (Screenshot: Palestine TV)
With Israel expected to begin vaccinating its population by the end of December, Palestinians may not see their first coronavirus vaccinations until March, Palestinian Authority Health Minister Mai al-Kaila said in a press conference in Ramallah on Wednesday.
“We expect that our first vaccination will be around the end of January, early February, by March it will be with us,” al-Kaila told reporters.
The first major shipment of doses of the Pfizer vaccine is poised to arrive in Israel on Thursday to test the logistics of storing and transporting the shots. Inoculations are expected to begin by the end of December.