Gaza i on saturday Polio campaign has begun. According to the news agency AFP, the aid team says that Israel and Hamas ‘on the basis of humanitarianism A pause in attacksAfter agreeing on this campaign will start today (Sunday) in a big way.
After the first case of polio in Gaza in 25 years was reported last month Vaccination The campaign was announced.
Musa Abid, director of primary health at the Ministry of Health in Gaza, told AFP that local health officials are starting a polio vaccination campaign today (Sunday) in collaboration with the United Nations and other NGOs.
An unspecified number of children were given the first dose of vaccination at al-Nusir Hospital in the southern city of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip.
Among them was Amal Shaheen’s three-year-old daughter, who was already under treatment in the hospital for pneumonia.
Amal Shaheen told AFP: ‘We have been in hospital for 17 days where I spend all days worrying about my baby girl. Today, like other children here, he was given polio vaccine.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that Israel had agreed to a “three-day pause in humanitarian attacks” for vaccinations in Gaza.
But this ‘Cease fire no’
An international aid worker told AFP that Palestinian authorities organized a launching ceremony on Saturday and that the vaccination drive was expected to formally begin on Sunday.
The Israeli Defense Ministry said on Saturday that the vaccine will be administered daily from 6:00 am to 2:00 pm for three days in central, southern and northern Gaza.
The Ministry of Defense said: ‘At the end of each regional vaccination campaign the situation for the region will be reviewed.’
On the other hand, the Palestinian Ministry of Health issued a slightly different schedule, according to which the vaccination program will continue for four days in all locations.
The ministry has identified 67 vaccination centers in central Gaza, including 59 in southern Gaza and 33 in northern Gaza.
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Polio virus is a highly contagious disease spread by contaminated water and has become an increasingly common problem during the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
The media office in Gaza said on Saturday that an “immediate ceasefire” was needed for the vaccination campaign. However, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said the measures to facilitate the polio campaign in Gaza were “not a ceasefire.”
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, at least 40,691 people have been killed in the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
The UN rights office says most of the dead are women and children.
Continuous Israeli bombardment has also created a major humanitarian crisis and destroyed the health system.
Several dead bodies were recovered from Gaza
According to the Reuters news agency, Israel said it had discovered several bodies in Gaza during the fighting and that its forces were conducting an operation to recover and identify the bodies, which would take several hours.
The army has asked the public to refrain from spreading rumors regarding the identity of the bodies.
However, US President Joe Biden said that Israeli-American prisoner Harsh Goldberg Pollen was among the six people whose bodies were found by Israeli forces.
In a statement released on Saturday, Biden said: ‘In a tunnel under the city of Rafah, Israeli forces recovered the bodies of six people held captive by Hamas.
“We have now confirmed that one of the bodies is that of American citizen Hersh Goldberg Pollen.”
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2024-09-01 17:30:20
