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We escaped death with our children, and fled from place to place for the sake of our children, and now we have these diseases,
said Wafaa Obaid, who brought her three children to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah to get the vaccinations We haven't given him any treatments. We live in a tent and there is no medication,
El Jidyan, 35, told CBS News Demarcated areas will be established that will be safe for administering the vaccines for a few hours,
I believe it’s going to [be] really unlikely for the vaccine campaign to reach the 90 percent of children that need to be vaccinated,
Latifi told Al Jazeera from Los Angeles I want to make the following clear: the safest and most effective way to protect children against the poliovirus, regardless of the variant, is to vaccinate them,
UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters in New York last week The vaccine campaign doesn’t address the core issue, which is the lack of hygiene, sanitation and clean water,
There’s just no guarantee of safety. These people that need to bring their children to these clinics – first of all, do they have access to the clinics? Do they have fuel or the means to get to the clinics? Is it safe? Is it safe for the staff to get to the clinics? I know that we’ve got these brief humanitarian pauses. But is it sufficient? No,
This is the first few hours of the first phase of a massive campaign, one of the most complex in the world,
said Juliette Touma, communications director of UNRWA, the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency Today is test time for parties to the conflict to respect these area pauses to allow the UNRWA teams and other medical workers to reach children with these very precious two drops. It’s a race against time,
Touma told the Reuters news agency I knew about this campaign by chance. I was frightened when I heard the word polio,
said Maysaa Abu Daqqa, a mother of a 9-year-old, Habib Nizam When I saw other women accepting the vaccinations for their children, I was encouraged to follow them,
Israel views with importance the prevention of a polio outbreak in the Gaza Strip, including for the purpose of preventing the spread of diseases in the region,
There are a lot of drones flying over central Gaza and we hope this vaccination campaign for children will be calm,
Children continue to be exposed, it knows no borders, checkpoints or lines of fighting. Every child must be vaccinated in Gaza and Israel to curb the risks of this vicious disease spreading,
It is scientifically known that for every 200 virus infections, only one will show the full symptoms of polio, while the remaining cases may present mild symptoms such as a cold or a slight fever,
Palestinian Health Minister Majed Abu Ramadan said on that same day It may be reasonable to ask if there is an intentional effort to comprehensively destroy the Palestinian education system, an action known as ‘scholasticide’,
I am appealing to all parties to provide concrete assurances right away, guaranteeing humanitarian pauses for the campaign,
For this to work, parties to the conflict must respect the temporary area pauses. For the sake of children across the region, a lasting ceasefire is overdue,
We have been in the hospital for 17 days... I spend all my days worrying about her,
At the end of each regional vaccination campaign, a situational assessment will be conducted for the area,