Children began receiving vaccines on Saturday, Gaza's health ministry said, a day before the large-scale rollout and first three-day 'humanitarian pause' in fighting agreed to by Israel and the UN's World Health Organization.
Children in the Gaza Strip began receiving vaccines against polio on Saturday, ahead of an expected three-day pause in fighting agreed to by Israel, Palestinian groups and the WHO.
Associated Press reporters saw roughly 10 infants receiving vaccine doses in Khan Younis's Nasser Hospital on Saturday afternoon. The disease mainly affects children under the age of five. It can cause deformities and paralysis, and is potentially fatal. Among the dead were a doctor and his family and a child, according to an initial list of hospital casualties and footage released by civil defence officials who operate under Gaza's Hamas-run government.
The bombings took place as Israel continued its large-scale raid — which includes destruction of infrastructure, air strikes and gun battles — into urban refugee camps in the cities of Jenin and Tulkarem, in the north of the volatile West Bank. The Palestinian Health Ministry noted a surge in Palestinian deaths by Israeli forces, with 663 killed in the West Bank in the nearly 11 months since the war in Gaza began.
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