Gaza receives first batch of vaccines

Israel approved the shipment after reportedly considering tying the delivery to the release of Israeli captives in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory.
Palestinian health workers unload the first arriving shipment of doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine for COVID-19 coronavirus disease, on the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing south of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 17, 2021. - An initial batch of coronavirus vaccines, enough to fully innoculate 1,000 people, arrived in Gaza after Israel had blocked the shipment earlier in the week. The Israeli military department responsible for civilian affairs in the occupied Palestinian
Palestinian health workers unload the first arriving shipment of doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine for COVID-19, on the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing south of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Feb. 17, 2021. - SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images
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The Gaza Strip received its first batch of coronavirus vaccines on Wednesday after Israel agreed to permit the delivery.

The Palestinian Authority said it sent 2,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine to Gaza from Ramallah in the West Bank, the PA-run WAFA News Agency reported.

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