Palestinian political activist and analyst Abdel Sattar Qassem dies of Covid-19
Qassem, 72, had announced in January that he would be running as an independent candidate for the presidency in the upcoming Palestinian election
Qassem was born in the village of Deir al-Ghusun in 1948, in the present-day occupied West Bank (social media) By Published date: 2 February 2021 13:35 UTC | Last update: 1 month ago
Prominent Palestinian academic and political activist Abdel Sattar Qassem died late on Monday aged 72 of Covid-19, his family said.
Qassem, a professor of political science at Al-Najah University in Nablus, was well known for his activism against the Israeli military occupation in the West Bank, as well as his criticism of the Palestinian Authority’s security coordination and the Oslo Accords of 1993, signed between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO).
Published date: 6 January 2021 13:30 UTC | Last update: 2 months 2 weeks ago
Israel has boasted that it is surpassing other nations with its vaccination campaign against the Covid-19 virus, with more than 12 percent of its population receiving the first of two jabs since December.
The country is seeking to be the first in the world to succeed in getting rid of Covid-19, paying a much higher price to gain priority access to the vaccine - as reports have indicated that Israel paid $62 per dose, while its cost in the United States does not exceed $20.
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