More than 2.5 million Palestinians live in the West Bank, with an additional two million in Gaza. Israeli officials have said it is in their interest to help the Palestinians once Israeli citizens, including hundreds of thousands of settlers in the West Bank, have been fully vaccinated. Human rights advocates have argued that Israel should be vaccinating the Palestinian population in parallel with its own citizens. So far, the Palestinians have received 10,000 doses from Russia of its Sputnik V vaccine, 2,000 of which were transferred from the West Bank to Gaza. Palestinian officials expect to receive 37,440 Pfizer doses and hundreds of thousands of AstraZeneca doses through the global-sharing initiative Covax sometime in March.

Source: New York Times February 27, 2021 16:07 UTC