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Israel Agrees to Humanitarian Pauses in Gaza Fighting to Allow Polio Vaccination Campaign
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A polio vaccination campaign is underway in the Gaza Strip, targeting 640,000 children under the age of 10. The campaign, launched by UN agencies and local health officials, aims to immunize 90% of children in a short time frame. The rollout relies on temporary ceasefires between Israeli forces and Hamas fighters, with three separate three-day pauses in hostilities agreed upon by the Israeli military and Hamas.
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This vaccine is safe. It is effective, and it offers top-quality protection. It is a vaccine globally recommended for variant type two poliovirus outbreaks by the World Health Organization.
But there is no alternative to a cease-fire because it's not only polio that threatens children in Gaza, but also other factors, including malnutrition and the inhuman conditions they are living in.
On 1st day only, @UNRWA teams & partners reached around 87,000 children according to @WHO. Efforts are ongoing to provide children with this key vaccine, but what they need most is a #CeasefireNow.
We are ready to cooperate with international organisations to secure this campaign, serving and protecting more than 650,000 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip.
We have urged them to immediately rectify the issues within their system.
Israel must not only take ownership for its mistakes, but also take concrete actions to ensure the IDF does not fire on UN personnel again.
We have a preliminary commitment for area-specific humanitarian pauses during the campaign.
I'm not going to say this is the ideal way forward. But this is a workable way forward.
It's so important that we get this vaccination campaign out as soon as possible, and that we have the safety to do this, because the repercussions will be disastrous for not just children in the Gaza Strip but children in the region. And they have already been put through so much.
There could be more cases of paralytic polio until this outbreak is stopped and this virus will paralyse more children.
Many people are in need of assistance and we cannot reach them.
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sources
- 1.Al Jazeera
- 2.CTV News
- 3.BBC
- 4.The New York Times
- 5.The Guardian
- 6.CNN
- 7.CNA News
- 8.The Times of India
- 9.Le Monde
- 10.France 24
- 11.DW News
- 12.The Times
perspectives
- 1.US Foreign Policy
- 2.US under Donald Trump
- 3.Israel-Palestine Conflict
- 4.British Foreign Policy
- 5.Israel Foreign Policy
- 6.Islamic Terrorism
- 7.Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu
- 8.Israel-US Relations
- 9.2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
- 10.Qatar Foreign Policy
countries
- 1.Israel
- 2.Palestine, State of
- 3.United States
- 4.Egypt
- 5.Qatar
- 6.Afghanistan
- 7.Pakistan
- 8.Jordan
- 9.United Arab Emirates
- 10.United Kingdom
- 11.Greece
- 12.Indonesia
organizations
- 1.Hamas
- 2.World Health Organization
- 3.United Nations
- 4.United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
- 5.Palestinian Health Ministry
- 6.American Near East Refugee Aid
- 7.UN Security Council
- 8.Israel Defense Forces
- 9.Al-Ahli Hospital
- 10.Al-Aqsa Hospital
- 11.European Union
- 12.Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum
persons
- 1.Benjamin Netanyahu
- 2.Richard Peeperkorn
- 3.Abdel-Rahman Abu El-Jedian
- 4.Basem Naim
- 5.Kamal Abu Al-Rub
- 6.Moussa Abed
- 7.Niveen Abu Al-Jidyan
- 8.Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
- 9.Abdul Rahman
- 10.Amal Shaheen
- 11.Ammar Ammar
- 12.Anthony Blinken