In a joint statement, the Palestinian NGOs Network (PNGO), the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PHROC) and the National Authority for Palestinian NGOs (PNIN) have expressed their concern that the Israeli occupying authorities have implemented its vaccine policy in a discriminatory, unlawful, and racist manner since commencing the roll-out of a vaccine against COVID-19 in December 2020. Through this statement, the aforementioned organizations called upon Israel to immediately comply with its IHL and IHRL obligations to the protected occupied population in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, including East Jerusalem and ensure the non-discriminatory provision of vaccines to all persons in the territory under its control. In addition to ensuring the provision of life-saving COVID-19 vaccinations to Palestinian prisoners and detainees incarcerated in Israeli prisons and detention centres. They called on Pfizer, as a leading international pharmaceutical company,  to comply with its responsibilities under the UNGPs and to act with due diligence to ensure that its supply of vaccines is not used in the service of illegal settlement activity or to entrench apartheid policies and practices. To check the news, click here