JERUSALEM: A Palestinian woman receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Clalit Health Services in the Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem.-AFP

JERUSALEM: Israel's defense ministry said yesterday that it would send 5,000 coronavirus vaccine doses to the Palestinian Authority to inoculate medical personnel, following global calls for Israel to ensure Palestinians are vaccinated. "I confirm we are going to send 5,000 vaccines to medical teams in the Palestinian Authority," a spokesperson for Defense Minister Benny Gantz told AFP.

The Jewish state has launched an aggressive coronavirus vaccine campaign on Israeli territory, an effort widely regarded as the world's fastest per capita. More than three million of the country's nine million people have received the first of two required jabs of the Pfizer vaccine. -AFP