39 2.2 Development in the right to the highest attainable standard of health The right to health is one of the most prominent rights that have been greatly affected by the Corona virus pandemic. Official and private institutions have had to modify their plans and strategies in line with that, while at the same time maintaining that the rights of the majority of citizens who need health care , are not harmed and can obtain medicines and performing surgeries without delay, whether they get infected with the Corona virus. The number of people infected with the Corona virus, according to the internet platform, reached approximately (157,879) by the end of the year 202025, out of which males constitute (49.6%) and females constitute (50.4%), while the percentage of children among the total infected was (15.5%)26, and (7%) for the elderly. The number of the dead among them was (1572), (57%) males, (43%) females, (1%) children, and (76.5%) elderly27. The percentage of injuries recorded in the Gaza Strip was (26.6%). While the percentage of deaths recorded in the Gaza Strip was (24.5%) of the total deaths in the Palestinian territories. The information published on the internet platform showed that 898,693 tests were conducted for the virus, without the platform indicating the number of people who were examined. According to the monthly expenditure report of the Ministry of Health28, for the first eleven months of the year 2020 and despite the increase in the burdens entrusted to the Ministry of Health to confront the Corona virus, it appears that its total expenditures during this period did not exceed (11.4%) of the total public spending of the various responsibility centers in the budget. If we compare this percentage of the ministry’s spending to the previous three years (11% in 2017, 11.4% in 2018, and 11% in 2019), it is notable how this year’s spending did not exceed prior years by much. It also does not consider the health sector as one of the first principles in which the emergency budget for the year 2020 is based on. 25 The above information, according to the publication on the electronic platform of the observatory on 2/1/2021, noting that the platform, although it shows the total numbers of infected patients in full, it does not show the distribution in terms of sex and age for these total numbers. It rather mentions them under the item “unspecified” (form Unspecified cases (35.3%) of the total recorded cases) due to the lack of this information for two categories of infected. These are: 1) The infected from the Jerusalem governorate, with the exception of its suburbs, which are administratively subject to the Israeli occupation authorities and the Palestinian authorities were unable to obtain information in this regard, and 2) the infected from the Gaza, according to Dr. Izzat Rayan / the Palestinian Institute of Public Health of the Ministry of Health in a phone call on 4/1/2020. 26 Although, according to Palestinian law and international standards, a child is one who has not exceeded 18 years of age, the information available regarding the infected by age on the official electronic platform is for persons under 19 years of age. 27 “Elderly” here means anyone over the age of sixty, and “children” refers to anyone under the age of eighteen. 28 See the financial reports published on the aforementioned website of the Palestinian Ministry of Finance: http://www.pmof.ps/pmof/index.php Executive Summary 2020