Israel paying millions to supply COVID-19 doses to Syria

Palestinians will chafe at the fact that Israel is aiding millions of Syrians while they wait for the vaccines.

Israeli media report the Syrian prisoner exchange negotiated by Russia, which included the repatriation of an Israeli woman who crossed the Golan frontier into Syria, in return for two Syrian shepherds who strayed into Israeli-held territory, involved another unprecedented Israeli “concession”. However, the nature of the concession could not be published because Israeli military censorship prohibited it. A well-informed Israeli source told Al Jazeera that Russia, in order to seal the deal, proposed that Israel pay millions of dollars for several million doses of its Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine to be administered to millions of Syrians.