Israel donates vaccines against COVID-19 to countries that open their embassies in Jerusalem

Israel has announced that it will send "limited quantities of unused doses" of the COVID-19 vaccine to the Palestinians and some countries such as Honduras and Guatemala, which plan to open their embassies in Jerusalem.

Israel, which holds the world record for the number of vaccinated citizens, has already injected two doses of Pfizer7BioNTeah into three million people, nearly a third of the population.

On December 19, Israel launched a large and rapid vaccination campaign following an agreement with Pfizer that allows Israel to provide millions of doses in exchange for biomedical data on the vaccine's effectiveness, reports jerusalempost.

But "with a limited amount of unused vaccine collected in the last month," Israel has decided to help the medical staff of the Palestinian Authority and some countries and send them a symbolic amount of the vaccine, the statement added.

Israel has already sent thousands of vaccine doses to the occupied West Bank for Palestinian medical personnel in recent weeks.

According to the United Nations and NGOs, Israel is obliged "as an occupying power" to provide a vaccine to the 2.8 million Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and to the two million residents of the Gaza Strip, which is under Israeli blockade. /Telegraph/