The Pfizer vaccines, which the Palestinian Authority (PA) rejected on Friday due to the fact that they were near their expiration date, were identical to those given to citizens inside Israel, the country’s Health Ministry said.
Earlier this week, the two sides agreed that Israel would transfer its short-dated doses of the US-made jab to the occupied West Bank so that the PA could accelerate its lagging vaccination campaign. In exchange, the Jewish state was to receive fresh ampules of the vaccine that Pfizer had been scheduled to deliver to Palestine this autumn.
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