The Palestinian government decided Friday to return the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses that the Israeli Occupation began to transfer to the Palestinian Authority.

The Palestinian Minister of Health Mai al-Kaila said that this came as these doses do not meet the required specifications.

Earlier Friday, the Israeli Occupation's Ministry of Health announced that more than one million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine will be delivered to the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the coming days under a deal to "share" jabs.

Under the terms of the deal, announced by the office of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, the PA agreed to give the Israeli Occupation a reciprocal number of doses from one of its own Pfizer-BioNTech shipments due to arrive later this year.

The Pfizer-BioNTech doses earmarked for the delivery are set to expire soon, according to the office, and they were "approved in light of the fact that [the Israeli Occupation's] vaccine stock meets its needs today."

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