Israel freezes programme to send vaccines abroad, defence minister says

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Israel has frozen its programme to send COVID-19 vaccines abroad to buy international goodwill, Defence Minister Benny Gantz said on Thursday, after the initiative came under legal scrutiny.

FILE PHOTO: Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein attend the arrival of a plane with a shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease vaccines, at Ben Gurion airport, near the city of Lod, Israel, January 10, 2021. Motti Millrod/Pool via REUTERS

“I welcome the decision to freeze the transfer of vaccines to other countries,” Gantz said on Twitter. Gantz is serving in Netanyahu’s government while preparing to face off against him in an election next month. But centrist former general Gantz said a decision to give away vaccines must be made in the “proper forums” and it was not up to Netanyahu to take such action on his own.Earlier on Thursday, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki called Netanyahu’s overseas vaccine shipments “political blackmail and an immoral act,” accusing Israel of “exploitation of the humanitarian needs of these countries.

While the PA expects to receive an initial COVAX shipment within weeks, the program is at risk of failing, mainly due to a lack of funds. The country has signalled its intention to open an embassy in Jerusalem, bolstering Israel’s claims to the city that it regards as its capital but infuriating the Palestinians, who claim the eastern half of the city as the capital of a future state.

 

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Well, woopidoo! Should've been obvious from occupying forces

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Israel would show REAL diplomacy if they donated the vaccines to all the Palestinians ! Maybe the Palestinians might respond with GOODWILL!

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Jewlicious, love they Jews, love the way they Jews treat the Palestinians, love how they keep reminding us of the Holocaust, love how they commit atrocities, murder, and constant false PR\\propaganda.....almost sounds like a party that was in power in 1940 in Europe

I am beginning to wonder if Israel is like the biggest cult in the world.

Israel doesn’t give a shit about anyone but themselves yet the UN treats them with kid gloves.

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