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An Israeli official said on Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority will receive a first shipment of 5,000 units of the Russian Covid-19 vaccine in the West Bank.
The Israeli “Kan” channel reported that Palestinian Minister of Civil Affairs, Hussein al-Sheikh will return today from Russia, accompanied by a first batch of the Russian “Sputnik V” Corona vaccine, and he will cross from Jericho after he obtained the approval of the Israeli authorities to introduce the vaccine to the West Bank.
The Palestinian Minister of Health, Mai Kaileh, had announced earlier that Palestine would prepare the Russian vaccine for emergency use, adding that Palestine would be the first country to bring the Russian vaccine to the Middle East.
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Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi rejected the invitation for meeting French, German, Egyptian and Jordanian foreign ministers in Cairo, citing the nationwide lockdown in Israel as an excuse.
An Israeli court has banned screenings of a documentary film about the 2002 deadly confrontations between armed Israeli soldiers and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
The Lod district court made its decision on Monday, concluding a libel lawsuit filed against prominent director Mohammed Bakri by Israeli soldier Nissim Magnaji, whose participation in Israel’s Operation Defensive Shield is portrayed in the film which was released in 2002.
Magnaji filed the lawsuit after he was accused in the film “Jenin, Jenin” of stealing money from an elderly Palestinian man, an allegation he denied.
Monday’s ruling said Meghnagi had been “sent to defend his country and found himself accused of a crime he did not commit”.