Israeli minister orders jails not to vaccinate Palestinian security prisoners
Order defies health ministry guidelines that prisoners should be part of second group of Israelis to be vaccinated
Public Security Minister Amir Ohana s statement did not single out Palestinian inmates, but there are no non-Palestinian security prisoners in Israel (AFP) By Published date: 27 December 2020 15:47 UTC | Last update: 2 months 3 weeks ago
Israel s Public Security Minister Amir Ohana told the country s prison service late last week not to inoculate Palestinian security prisoners, an Israeli newspaper has revealed.
The order came despite health ministry guidelines that prisoners should be part of the second group of Israelis to be vaccinated against the Covid-19 coronavirus, together with security personnel, Haaretz wrote on Sunday.
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Commander of the Jerusalem District Police, Doron Yedid (C) seen in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim as police close shops and disperse public gatherings, March 30, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Several senior officers in the Israel Police are reportedly planning on hanging up their handcuffs and leaving the force in protest of Public Security Minister Amir Ohana’s Tuesday announcement that he had nominated Border Police chief Yaakov (Kobi) Shabtai to serve as the next commissioner of police.
In addition to interim police chief Motti Cohen’s subsequent announcement that he would resign from the post within days, three other top police officers Jerusalem District Commander Doron Yadid, Tel Aviv District Commander David Bitan and Deputy Commissioner Alon Asor are also planning on resigning, the Kan public broadcaster reported.
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The weekly cabinet meeting, which had been pushed off this week to tomorrow, faces an additional delay until Thursday amid disagreements between the Likud and Blue and White parties over the agenda, Hebrew-language media reports.
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The United States places a pro-Iranian group based in Bahrain on its global terror blacklist, accusing it of plotting attacks on US troops in the tiny Gulf kingdom.
The group, Saraya al-Mukhtar, poses a “significant risk of committing acts of terrorism that threaten the national security and foreign policy of the United States,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says in a statement.
“Saraya al-Mukhtar is an Iran-backed terrorist organization based in Bahrain, reportedly receiving financial and logistic support from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” Pompeo says.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have been on the US “Designated Global Terrorist” list since 2019.
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The daughter of a 74-year-old Austrian citizen imprisoned in Iran has told of her fears for her father’s health after he started displaying coronavirus symptoms.
“He started suffering from fever last Thursday, but he doesn’t get the medical attention he needs, and he was denied a COVID test,” Fanak Mani, daughter of Massud Mossaheb, tells AFP of her father’s treatment in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison.
Mossaheb was detained while traveling in Iran with a delegation from an Austrian research center in January 2019 and in August it was announced that he had been jailed for 10 years on charges of spying for Israel and Germany.