The WHO said it had reached the deal with Israel to carry out the first round of vaccines for 640,000 children after a baby contracted the decease.
Israel’s military and Palestinian militant group Hamas have agreed to three-day pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for polio vaccinations for hundreds of thousands of children after a baby there contracted the first confirmed case in 25 years.
The campaign – which has been coordinated with Israeli authorities – will then move to southern Gaza and finally northern Gaza for similar pauses, he said at a UN press conference by video from Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. Peeperkorn said the humanitarian pauses were critical so families could bring their children to get vaccinated and get back to where they were staying by 3pm.WHO said health workers needed to vaccinate at least 90 per cent of children in Gaza to stop the transmission of polio. The campaign will involve more than 2100 health workers from UN agencies and the Gaza Ministry of Health, working at hundreds of sites across Gaza and with mobile teams.
Robert Wood, US deputy ambassador to the UN, urged Israel to avoid further civilian evacuation orders during the pauses and said workers need security to vaccinate children. He is one of hundreds of thousands of children who missed vaccinations because of the fighting between Israel and Hamas.
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