The first case of polio has been reported in an unvaccinated child in Gaza.
Palestinian health officials have reported the first case of polio in an unvaccinated 10-month-old child in the Gaza city of Deir al-Balah, the first case in years in the coastal enclave that has been engulfed in the Israel-Hamas war since October 7.
However, UN health and children's agencies have called for seven-day pauses in the fighting, starting at the end of August, to vaccinate 640,000 Palestinian children against polio. Israel's devastating retaliatory offensive has killed more than 40,000 people in Gaza in the 10-month-long conflict and created a dire humanitarian situation, which health officials say has created a public health emergency.
The children's stool samples have been sent for testing to the Jordan National Polio Laboratory, the agency said.
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