Gaza: Polio vaccination campaign postponed amid “intense bombardment”

Humanitarian organisations have postponed the third phase of a polio vaccination campaign in Gaza, which aimed to vaccinate 120 000 children in the north, as “intense bombardment, mass displacement orders, and lack of assured humanitarian pauses” threaten the safety of families and healthcare workers.1

The World Health Organization said the vaccination campaign in northern Gaza was to start on 23 October and was set to provide children in the area with a second dose of novel oral polio vaccine type 2. It said, …