Israel's emergency rescues service, Magen David Adom, parked a van outside Jerusalem's Old City on Friday as part of a drive to vaccinate residents of east Jerusalem, the Palestinian-dominated part of the city.
People lined up outside the van to get the coveted vaccine on a busy Friday, when many flock to the Old City for traditional Muslim Friday prayers.
Israel has overseen one of the world's most successful vaccination campaigns, securing millions of doses from drug makers Pfizer and Moderna.
The country has already vaccinated over five million people with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and could complete the task of inoculating its 6.2 million adults within weeks.
However, Israel has also received widespread international condemnation for sharing only a small fraction of virus-fighting shots with the Palestinians.
Israel this month shared just 2,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine with the Palestinian Authority to immunize front-line medical workers.
United Nations officials and human rights groups say Israel is an occupying power responsible for the well-being of the Palestinians.
Israel says that under interim peace accords from the 1990s it has no such obligations.
It notes that it has vaccinated its own Arab population, including Palestinians who live in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem.
Associated Press
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