3 days, 640,000 children, 1.3M doses. The plan to vaccinate Gaza's young against polio
Saturday, 31 August 2024 () The U.N. is about to launch an ambitious campaign to vaccinate 640,000 children in Gaza against polio, a disease that doctors fear has spread in the territory due to the massive humanitarian catastrophe unleashed by Israel's military offensive there. But carrying out the vaccination campaign will be no easy feat. Gaza's roads are largely destroyed, its are hospitals badly damaged and its population is spread into isolated pockets across the territory. The World Health Organization said Thursday that it has reached an agreement with Israel for limited pauses in the fighting to allow for the vaccination campaign to take place.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, is making an urgent plea for a humanitarian pause in Gaza to conduct a mass polio vaccination campaign. The situation is dire as bombs continue to fall, making it impossible to protect the children. The UN stresses that under the current conditions of...
As casualties from Hamas-Israel war continue to grow, local journalist in Gaza Rami Almughari looks at the toll Israeli attacks have taken on Gaza's young.
Saturday, 31 August 2024 ()
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