Jerusalem: The Palestine Authority (PA) canceled the agreement under which Israel said on Friday that it would provide about one million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine. Palestine will send In return, Palestine would return the same dose of vaccine to Israel later this year.
Palestine said that the use of the doses being shipped by Israel to the West Bank is going to expire very soon and it does not meet their standards.
Earlier, Israel had also announced the agreement, saying that the period of their use would soon end. However, he did not specify its date. Israel has lifted restrictions by vaccinating 85 percent of its population but has faced criticism for not sharing vaccine doses with the 4.5 million Palestinians living in the West and Gaza. The deal was announced on Sunday by the new government of Israel that took power.
The Israeli government said it would supply doses of the Pfizer vaccine to the Palestinian Authority, whose expiration date is expiring. In return, the Palestinian Authority will transfer the same number of vaccine doses to Israel in September or October upon receipt from pharmaceutical companies.
