Report: Israel will fund vaccines for Syria in exchange for the return of the young Israeli woman

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Online Report: Israel has agreed to purchase millions of dollars worth of Russian “Sputnik” vaccines against Corona that will be delivered to the Syrians in exchange for the Israeli return who crossed the border into Syria a few days ago and returned to Israel on Thursday night, according to US and Arab media reports.

Prime Minister Netanyahu on the return of the young Israeli woman from Syria

According to reports, this is the part of the young woman’s release deal that was banned from publication following Russia’s demand. Also, the exact price that Israel was required to pay under the agreement was not specified. The cost of a Sputnik vaccine dose is $ 10 at most, so it is estimated that it has been agreed to purchase hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses.

On the other hand, according to a report on a website affiliated with the Syrian opposition, sources said that Israel would pay Russia $ 1.2 million under the agreement to purchase Sputnik vaccines. It was also reported on the website that Russia also wanted to stop the attacks in Syria, but in the end it was agreed to release the shepherds and special assistance in the fight against the corona virus.

According to a publication in the Saudi newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, the deal to release Israel included conditions for the transfer of vaccines to Syria. Informed sources in Tel Aviv who spoke with the newspaper allegedly linked the secret clause in the agreement with Syria in vaccines against the corona virus. Sources stated that Syria needs vaccines while in Israel there is a surplus of them. The sources declined to provide further information.

However, a Syrian source quoted by the Sana network denied what was published in some media outlets on a secret clause in the agreement for the release of Syrian prisoners. The same source insisted that this was the promotion of fabricated information on a clause for obtaining vaccines from Israel, with the aim of exploiting the deal to harm Syria and the humanitarian characteristics of the deal. According to him, the media want to portray Israel as human.

The reports confirm the publication yesterday (Friday) in “Israel Today”, under the restrictions of censorship of the affair. The police issued a restraining order on the details of the investigation, which is being conducted at the unit for the fight against serious and international crime (Yahaval). In response, senior government officials told Israel Today that “the restraining order is puzzling, there is no reason for the public not to know.”

Meanwhile, MK Ahmad Tibi posted a tweet on Twitter yesterday, in which he wrote: “Last week I raised a demand in the Knesset to allow thousands of vaccines to enter Gaza and to transfer vaccines to Palestinians in the West Bank from the large stock in Israel (responsibility of occupying power). Do we have to wait for a Jew to cross the border into Gaza to be vaccinated? It is possible otherwise. This is international law and this is human. This is the same continuous epidemiological area. “

At the same time, it was reported yesterday that a vaccination campaign against the virus has begun in Syria, even though the amount of vaccines held by the Syrians is insufficient for the entire population, and can currently serve only 20 percent of all citizens of the appropriate age to receive the vaccine.

Netanyahu: “I asked Putin for help – and he acted”

It was recently reported in the United States by an Israeli source that the young woman crossed the border into Syria on February 2. The IDF allowed the publication that she crossed the border in mountainous territory near the Druze village of Majdal Shams.

The young woman landed in Israel after being transferred by the Syrians to Russia. Her return was made possible after Russia mediated a deal between the parties in which two Syrian citizens imprisoned in Israel were released, and the sentence of a resident of Israel suspected of aiding a hostile factor was shortened by three months.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on the phone yesterday with the mother of the Israeli, who thanked for the efforts made to restore her daughter. Netanyahu sought to strengthen her and her family and said that Israel would always work to bring back its citizens.

After the deal was completed, the Prime Minister thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for his assistance in the prisoner deal, and Israeli security bodies for their efforts to secure the release of the young woman: “A few days ago a young Israeli woman crossed the border into Syria. To return it – and he did. “

Netanyahu went on to thank Putin “for pledging to return Israeli citizens to Israel again.” He added: “Israel has always done and will always do everything in its power to return our citizens to Israel. I would like to thank the President of the State, the head of the National Security Council, the Coordinator of Prisoners and Missing Persons, the IDF, the GSS, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and all “He helped with this important operation. Thank you.”

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