Israel to give Palestinians 1 million COVID vaccine doses - Israeli statement
Reuters
June 18, 2021 18:01 MYT
June 18, 2021 18:01 MYT
A Palestinian labourer who works within Israel or its settlements in the occupied West Bank, is vaccinated at an Israeli facility at Shaar Efraim crossing from Israel to the West Bank. Filepic/REUTERS
TEL AVIV: Israel will give around 1 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to the Palestinian Authority (PA), Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's office said on Friday.
In a joint statement with the health and defence ministries, Bennett's office said the PA in exchange had agreed to give Israel a reciprocal number of Pfizer doses from one of its own shipments that is expected to arrive later this year.