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Israel secretly agreed to buy vaccines for Syria in deal to free woman

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Published: 23 February 2021

Last updated: 4 March 2024

The deal with Damascus to secure the return of an Israeli woman who crossed the border raises an uncomfortable question for Netanyahu

Netanyahu's vaccine deal with Syria's Assad will haunt him in dealings with Hamas (Haaretz)
AMOS HAREL: The deal with Damascus to secure the return of an Israeli who crossed the border raises an uncomfortable question for the prime minister

Israel secretly agreed to purchase hundreds of thousands of Covid vaccines for Syria in deal to free Israeli (Haaretz)
According to foreign reports, Israel agreed to buy COVID vaccines for transfer to Bashar Assad's government in exchange for woman's release

‘No fence will stop me,’ woman who crossed to Syria previously wrote on Facebook (Times of Israel)
Netanyahu says no Israeli vaccines part of deal to free woman from Syria after foreign report says ‘secret clause’ has Israel funding purchase of Sputnik V doses for Assad regime

Photo: Medics work with coronavirus patients in a hospital in Idlib, Syria, last year (AP/Ghaith Alsayed)
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