[News] Israel is successfully advancing with its vaccination process against COVID-19 and is already planning to give doses to other countries, including Central America

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Honduras would be one of the countries that will benefit.

On Tuesday, the Israeli government affirmed that it will send a "limited quantity" of doses of "unused" anticovid vaccines to the Palestinians and to some countries such as Honduras, which plans to open an embassy in Jerusalem.

"Israel has received many requests for help from countries that claim vaccines," the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement, stating that his country was not in a position to provide "significant aid before ending its vaccination campaign. .

But thanks to "a limited amount of unused vaccines accumulated last month", Israel has decided "to help the medical personnel of the Palestinian Authority and several countries" by sending them "a symbolic quantity of vaccines," the statement added.

The Israeli media have cited Honduras in particular, which announced last year its intention to move its embassy to Jerusalem, as a country likely to receive doses of vaccine from Israel.

The prime minister's office declined to comment on this information, but a source close to the case stated that Honduras would be one of the countries that will benefit.

Israel, which holds the world record for the percentage of its po[CENSORED]tion vaccinated, has already administered two doses of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine to three million people, almost a third of its po[CENSORED]tion.

Israel launched a vast and swift vaccination campaign on December 19 following an agreement with Pfizer that allowed Israel to quickly obtain millions of doses in exchange for biomedical data on the effect of the vaccine.

According to the United Nations and non-governmental organizations, Israel has “an obligation”, as an “occupying” power, to “supply” vaccines to the 2.8 million Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the 2 million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, under Israeli blockade.