Libya Studies Action Plan to Scale Up COVID Readiness, Response

Migrants receiving vaccines at a detention center in Tripoli (IOM)
Migrants receiving vaccines at a detention center in Tripoli (IOM)
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Libya Studies Action Plan to Scale Up COVID Readiness, Response

Migrants receiving vaccines at a detention center in Tripoli (IOM)
Migrants receiving vaccines at a detention center in Tripoli (IOM)

Libyan Minister of Health at the Government of National Unity Ali Zanati discussed with a number of officials new policies to be endorsed to scale up preparedness and response capacities against the coronavirus pandemic.

Zanati and the officials discussed procedures and measures adopted by the ministry to stabilize the epidemiological situation.

This came as the National Center for Disease Control continues to vaccinate immigrants at detention camps in Tripoli.

Libya registered 352,000 covid-19 cases and 4,982 deaths since the pandemic began. The total number of recoveries reached 286,000, while 194,000 patients are in critical condition.

Also, the National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced providing oxygen to Ghat district, southwestern Libya, to back efforts to combat the pandemic.

NOC noted that it also provided oxygen to Al Ajaylat, Jalu, Wadi Otbh, and Ras Lanuf.



Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian Man in West Bank

A picture taken in the village of Turmus Ayya near Ramallah city shows the nearby Israeli Shilo settlement in the background, in the occupied West Bank on February 18, 2024. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
A picture taken in the village of Turmus Ayya near Ramallah city shows the nearby Israeli Shilo settlement in the background, in the occupied West Bank on February 18, 2024. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
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Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian Man in West Bank

A picture taken in the village of Turmus Ayya near Ramallah city shows the nearby Israeli Shilo settlement in the background, in the occupied West Bank on February 18, 2024. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
A picture taken in the village of Turmus Ayya near Ramallah city shows the nearby Israeli Shilo settlement in the background, in the occupied West Bank on February 18, 2024. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Palestinian authorities said Israeli troops killed a 55-year-old man in the north of the occupied West Bank on Thursday -- an incident the Israeli army said involved a stabbing attack.

The Ramallah-based health ministry said the body in charge of coordination with Israel informed it that soldiers "shot and killed" the man in Rummanah, near Jenin, in the morning.

The Israeli military said separately that troops deployed in the village "neutralised" a man after he stabbed and "moderately injured" a soldier, AFP reported.

The army generally uses the term "neutralised" after killing someone.

Violence in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, has soared since the Hamas attack of October 2023.

A 12-year-old Palestinian boy died Thursday of wounds suffered during an army raid near the West Bank town of Nablus last week, the health ministry said.

Since October 7, 2023, Israeli troops or settlers have killed at least 951 Palestinians, including many militants, the ministry said.

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Over the same period, at least 35 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks or during Israeli military operations, according to Israeli figures.