A volunteer receives a COVID-19 vaccine at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem al-Quds, on November 1, 2020.

The Israeli regime says it will begin vaccinating Palestinian prisoners against the COVID-19 as pressure mounts on Tel Aviv from human rights groups.

On Sunday, the Israel Prison Service said in a statement that it would commence vaccinating all incarcerated people against COVID-19, including Palestinians.

It added that “following the vaccination of staff… the vaccination of detainees will begin in prisons in accordance with the medical and operational protocol established by the Prison Service.”

Israel has so far given at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to more than two million of its people, but it came under fire when its public security minister, Amir Ohana, recently announced that Palestinian inmates would be the last ones across the occupied territories to receive such vaccines.

Ohana’s remarks drew waves of condemnation from Israeli and…