Sunday, the Israeli Occupation Ministry of Defense announced the sending 5,000 doses of the Coronavirus vaccine to the Palestinian Authority to vaccinate its medical personnel, after several international calls for the state to do so. 

A spokesman for Israeli Occupation Defense Minister Benny Gantz confirmed the move to AFP.

"I confirm that we will send 5,000 vaccines to the medical staff of the Palestinian Authority," he said.

December 19, the Israeli Occupation began an ambitious vaccination campaign, the largest and fastest in the world. More than three million of the Israeli Occupation's population of about nine million received the first dose of the two required doses of the Pfizer vaccine.

In the West Bank, which the Israeli Occupation occupied in 1967, the Palestinians, numbering about 2.8 million, have yet to receive the vaccine against the virus.

As of Sunday noon, the West Bank counted about 108,000 cases of the virus, and 1,307 deaths. In the Gaza Strip, more than 51 thousand injuries and 522 deaths were recorded.

The Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, in the West Bank, said it did not directly ask the Israeli Occupation to help obtain vaccines against the virus.

The PA announced this month that it had signed four contracts to obtain vaccines against the virus, which will be delivered in the coming months and cover 70 percent of the Palestinian population.

The Palestinian Authority has not received any vaccine so far, and hoped to receive the first shipment at the beginning of February, thanks to the COVAX International Mechanism to help the poorest countries.

In a statement, the Palestine Liberation Organization called on "the international community to urge Israel, as an occupying power, to respect its obligations under international law and to provide vaccines."

On Friday, five Israeli Occupation human rights organizations resorted to the Israeli Supreme Court demanding the vaccination of Palestinian prisoners, saying that this matter is a "legal and moral duty."

The Palestinian Ministry of Health has yet to comment on the news of the Israeli Occupation sending vaccines.