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Rep. Rashida Tlaib , the lone Palestinian American in the U.S. Congress, said Friday that she is 'so saddened and ashamed of our country looking away and pretending they are trying to stop this madness' after the World Health Organization confirmed that a 10-month-old child in Gaza was paralyzed by polio. 'The first case of polio in more than 25 years, but no one will care because the baby is Palestinian,' Tlaib lamented. 'We don't want your thoughts and prayers.
Israel's blockade, meanwhile, is suffocating the enclave's population, forcing children to search rotting garbage for food as famine takes hold across the territory. Last month, the already dire humanitarian emergency became even more grave after health officials detected poliovirus in sewage samples at several locations in southern and central Gaza.
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