Aid workers preparing to distribute medicine to children in effort to contain outbreak call for pause in fighting
The UN has said its ability to function in Gaza is being crippled by a flurry of Israeli evacuation orders, herding Palestinians into ever smallerand remote areas, days before a critical effort to contain a polio outbreak.
Talks are under way between aid agencies and the Israel Defense Forces about the planned vaccination campaign. The IDF cooperated in the delivery of more than 25,000 vials of vaccine and refrigeration equipment through the Kerem Shalom crossing intoon Sunday, but their commanders have yet to agree to a pause in the bombing to allow the immunisation effort to go ahead safely and effectively.
Juliette Touma, the head spokesperson for Unrwa, the biggest humanitarian agency operating in Gaza, said: “Our ability to undertake and implement humanitarian work is shrinking by the hour. Every time there are evacuation orders, we are affected, because our local staff are constantly on the move and they are the backbone of the humanitarian operation.”
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