WEST BANK: ISRAEL BEGINS ITS DELIVERY OF 220,000 FOOT-AND-MOUTH VACCINATION KITS TO THE PALESTINIANS

Record ID: 400585

  • Title: WEST BANK: ISRAEL BEGINS ITS DELIVERY OF 220,000 FOOT-AND-MOUTH VACCINATION KITS TO THE PALESTINIANS
  • Date: 18th March 2001
  • Summary: TULKARM, WEST BANK (MARCH 18, 2001) (REUTERS ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS: VACCINES ARRIVING AT CHECKPOINT AND TRANSFERRED TO PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY REPRESENTATIVE (3 SHOTS) 0.18 2. CU: SIGN ON CAR "PALESTINIAN CENTRE FOR LIVESTOCK IMPORTMENT" 0.21 3. MV: ISRAELI MILITARY OFFICIALS STANDING AROUND 0.23 4. SV: CRATES TAKEN OUT OF ISRAELI T
  • Embargoed: 2nd April 2001 13:00
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  • Location: TULKARM, WEST BANK
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVAF3K9RAGV6LIT5TNRFHG04X0K4
  • Story Text: Israel has started delivery of 220,000 vaccination kits
    against foot-and-mouth disease to the Palestinians. The two
    sides charged each other with cynically manipulating the issue
    for political purposes.


    The Palestinian Authority said it had discovered four
    cases of the disease in one outbreak of foot-and-mouth near
    the West Bank Palestinian self-ruled town of Ramallah but that
    an Israeli blockade was preventing it from tackling the
    situation.

    Israeli officials warned Palestinians were manipulating
    the matter to draw attention to the Israeli blockade in the
    absence of laboratory testing confirming their veterinary
    assessments.

    The highly contagious disease is common in the Middle
    East, and the Palestinian Authority has made no link with the
    outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Britain and France.

    On Friday, Palestinian officials said the disease was
    found in cows and goats.

    Israel said on Friday it would relax the clampdown it
    imposed on Palestinian areas since the start of a nearly
    six-month long confrontation.

    The United States and Europe have pressured Israel to lift
    the closure which the Palestinians brand as collective
    punishment crippling their economy. Israel calls the blockades
    a security measure necessary to prevent terror attacks against
    its citizens.

    Israel transferred the vaccines to the Palestinian
    Authority at the Tulkarm checkpoint on Sunday and had
    requested samples for testing from cattle believed to be
    infected with the disease.



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