A World Health Organization official said Israel and Hamas have agreed to three separate pauses in fighting across three days as the vaccination campaign commences.
Israel has agreed to various pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for the vaccination of children against polio, a World Health Organization official said Thursday. Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative for the West Bank and Gaza, said in a press briefing that the vaccination campaign will begin Sept. 1 across three three-day phases, and the organization has received a preliminary commitment for area-specific humanitarian pauses during each phase.
Israel launches a large-scale military operation in the occupied West Bank, killing 10 militantsThe WHO official said the pauses will begin with a three-day pause in fighting in central Gaza before heading to south Gaza and then north Gaza. Over the course of the campaign, officials aim to give two doses of the polio vaccine to around 640,000 children under the age of 10. As of Thursday, Peeperkorn said 1.
Hamas clears the way for a possible cease-fire after dropping key demand, officials sayGrowing concerns about polio vaccine coverage in the war-torn country were realized recently when an unvaccinated 10-month-old baby became the region's first recorded case of the infection in more than 25 years. The infection, caused by a mutated strain of the virus that vaccinated people shed in their waste, paralyzed part of the baby's leg.
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