Gaza: Polio vaccination campaign gets underway as attacks on humanitarian aid continue

The UN has begun vaccinating children against polio in central Gaza, as part of a campaign that aims to vaccinate at least 90% of children in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Variant poliovirus type 2 was detected in Gaza’s sewage in June and last month a baby was reported to have been partially paralysed after contracting the disease. This was Gaza’s first polio case in 25 years.1

The World Health Organization and Unicef had pleaded for a seven day humanitarian pause in the fighting in Gaza to allow for polio vaccines …