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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel has frozen its programme to send COVID-19 vaccines abroad to buy international goodwill, Defence Minister Benny Gantz said on Thursday, after Israeli news reports said the initiative had come under legal scrutiny.<\/p>

FILE PHOTO: Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein attend the arrival of a plane with a shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines, at Ben Gurion airport, near the city of Lod, Israel, January 10, 2021. Motti Millrod\/Pool via REUTERS<\/figcaption>

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come under fire for donating COVID-19 vaccines to foreign allies, while Palestinians complained that, as an occupying power, Israel should be supplying more to them.<\/p>\n

Israeli public broadcaster Kan, which earlier this week reported that Israel would send small shipments to 19 countries, said the attorney general was seeking clarification about the programme.<\/p>\n

\u201cI welcome the decision to freeze the transfer of vaccines to other countries,\u201d Gantz, who is serving in Netanyahu\u2019s government while preparing to face off against him in an election next month, said on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Israel has had one of the world\u2019s fastest rollouts of COVID-19 vaccines, with nearly half the population already having received one dose. It has so far given only 2,000 doses to the Palestinians, arguing that they are responsible for their own healthcare system.<\/p>\n

Honduras – an ally of Israel – had already received 5,000 vaccine doses from Israel earlier on Thursday before the programme was frozen.<\/p>\n

A video clip of their arrival was tweeted by President Juan Orlando Hernandez with the message \u201cTake heart, Honduras!\u201d.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu\u2019s office made no immediate comment after the reports that the initiative was on hold.<\/p>\n

The right-wing Israeli leader earlier this week defended the decision, saying Israel had \u201cunused\u201d Moderna vaccines left over.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it buys goodwill,\u201d he told reporters on Wednesday. \u201cI think it is an intelligent decision … in return for many dividends that we have already received, in many ongoing contacts in many different fields that I will not elaborate about here.\u201d<\/p>\n

But centrist former general Gantz said a decision to give away vaccines must be made in the \u201cproper forums\u201d and it was not up to Netanyahu to take such action on his own.<\/p>\n

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