Sunday, 1 September 2024

MASSIVE POLIO VACCINATION CAMPAIGN IN GAZA UNDER WAY AS CEASEFIRE HOLDS TEMPORARILY

 Thousands have begun queueing in Gaza as a massive polio vaccination campaign for children is under way

  • A health official in Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry says the localised humanitarian pause in fighting, essential to the vaccine rollout, is holding

  • The UN's World Health Organization says it aims to vaccinate 640,000 children, weeks after the first polio case was detected in Gaza in 25 years

  • Elsewhere, Israel says its forces have recovered the bodies of six hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip overnight 


    Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza after Hamas attacked southern Israel on 7 October in which 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage

  • More than 40,530 people have been killed in Gaza since 7 October, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry

  • FULL REPORT AT: Israel-Gaza war latest: Pause in fighting holds as Gaza children get polio vaccine

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