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The Israeli army and the Palestinian group Hamas have agreed to three three-day pauses in fighting in the Gaza Strip in selected areas to authorize the vaccination of about 640,000 children against polio, A senior WHO official announced this on Thursday.
The vaccination campaign will begin on Sunday, according to Rick Peperkorn, the World Health Organization’s senior representative in the Palestinian territories. Under the agreement, breaks will be from 06:00 to 15:00 local time (03:00-12:00 Moscow time).
Vaccinations, he said, would begin on September 1 in central Gaza with a three-day pause in hostilities, then move to southern Gaza, where there would be another three-day pause, and then to northern Gaza. Peperkorn added that there was an agreement to extend the humanitarian pause in each area to a fourth day if necessary.
The Gaza Ministry of Health, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA) and other partners are ready to administer more than 1.6 million doses of polio vaccine (type 2) to more than 640,000 children under the age of ten.
A total of 1.26 million doses are already in Palestine, with another 400,000 doses to be sent soon.
Peperkorn reiterated that for the campaign to be possible, a humanitarian pause is needed to not only distribute doses but also allow people and families to get to vaccination centres.
WHO confirmed on August 23 that at least The child was paralyzed by the polio virus type 2the first case of this type in the area in 25 years.
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The UN Security Council will meet later on Thursday to discuss the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
“We are ready to cooperate with international organizations to ensure this campaign, which cares for and protects more than 650,000 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip,” Hamas spokesman Basem Naim told Reuters.
The Israeli army’s humanitarian unit (COGAT) said on Wednesday that The vaccination campaign will be carried out in coordination with the Israeli army. “As part of the normal humanitarian pauses that will allow the population to reach medical centers where vaccines will be administered.”
The latest stage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict erupted on October 7, when the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages, according to Israel’s estimates.
The attack that followed Since then, Israel has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians.according to the local health ministry, simultaneously displacing almost the entire population of 2.3 million people, causing a hunger crisis and leading to charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice, which Israel denies.
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