Israel to send Palestinians 1 mln COVID vaccine doses in exchange deal – Reuters

Israel to send Palestinians 1 mln COVID vaccine doses in exchange deal – Reuters

TEL AVIV, June 18 (Reuters) - Israel will send at least 1 million soon-to-expire COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Palestinian Authority (PA) under a deal to share shots, officials said on Friday.

Under the terms of the deal, announced by new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's office, the PA agreed to give Israel a reciprocal number of doses from one of its own shipments due to arrive later this year.

Rights groups have criticised Israel, which led the world with its swift vaccine roll-out, for not doing more to ensure Palestinian access to doses in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, territory it captured in a 1967 war.