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GENEVA, May 26, 2021 —
Deviating from its focus on the global response to the coronavirus pandemic,
the annual assembly of the UN’s World Health Organization held a session today singling
out Israel for rebuke.
The Jewish state was
condemned in speeches by some 25 delegations, including Iran, Syria,
Venezuela, Turkey, Lebanon and Cuba, for allegedly violating the health rights
of Palestinians and the Druze population in the Golan Heights.
The session concluded with a
vote of 82 to 14, with 40 abstentions, to adopt a resolution, submitted by the Palestinian
delegation and co-sponsored by countries such as Cuba, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan,
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, Venezuela and Yemen, requiring the
WHO to hold the same debate at next year’s assembly, and to prepare another
report on the “Health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory,
including east Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan.”
UN Watch condemned the
cynical politicization of the world’s top health agency at the expense of
focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic and other vital global health priorities and
emergencies.
WHO Ignores Syria, Yemen,
Venezuela
Out of 34 items on the
current world health assembly’s Agenda, only one, Item 25
targeting Israel, focused on a specific country.
There was no agenda item or
resolution on any other country, conflict, civil war or political impasse—not
on Syria, where hospitals and other medical infrastructure are repeatedly and
deliberately bombed by Syrian and Russian forces; not on war-torn Yemen, where
18 million are in dire need of health
assistance; and not on Venezuela, where the health system is in a state of
collapse and 7 million people are
in need of humanitarian assistance.
Session Falsely Accused
Israel of Violating Palestinian & Syrian Health Rights
Today’s assault on Israel at
the WHO promoted the lie that Israel is harming Palestinian health rights. The
opposite is true.
Despite the fact that the
Palestinians have their own health system, and under the Oslo II Peace Accord it is the Palestinian
Authority which is responsible for vaccinating their population, Israel has vaccinated over 100,000 Palestinian workers since
March as well as donating thousands of vaccine doses for Palestinian medical workers.
Israeli medical teams
coordinated with Palestinian medical professionals to provide training and
assistance. Israel transferred medical equipment and has trained dozens of
Palestinian doctors, nurses and medical personnel from Gaza before the Palestinian
Authority ceased coordination in May 2020, putting more pressure on their
health care system during a pandemic.
Moreover, it’s particularly
absurd for the WHO to enact a resolution effectively accusing Israel
of violating the health rights of Syrians in the Golan, while the
Director-General's report clearly states that they have full access
to universal health care under the Israeli health maintenance organizations, including
COVID testing, medical care, contact tracing and vaccination.
France in EU Minority That
Supported Biased Resolution
The vote was
82 to 14 in favor of the resolution, with 40 abstentions
and 38 absent.
UN Watch applauded the
Netherlands, Austria and Colombia for shifting their votes from Abstain last
year to No today.
Those that voted No like last
year were the US, UK, Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Czech Republic,
Germany, Honduras, Hungary, and Israel.
UN Watch also welcomed the
voting shifts of Poland, Malta and Monaco, which moved from Yes to Abstain.
However, amid a global
pandemic, the minority of EU member states and other democracies who voted for
the resolution should be ashamed, including France, Spain, Switzerland,
Belgium, Portugal, Japan, India, Ireland, New Zealand and Luxembourg.
These countries have now
encouraged the continued hijacking of the world's health priorities, and
the diversion of precious time, money, and resources to fight global disease,
in order to wage a political prosecution of Israel.
Anyone who has ever walked
into an Israeli hospital or clinic knows that they provide world-class health
care to thousands of Palestinian Arabs as well as to Syrians fleeing Assad.
In addition to voting against
the decision, the US took the floor to object to the politicization of the
forum.
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