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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 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,
When I saw other women accepting the vaccinations for their children, I was encouraged to follow them,
There are a lot of drones flying over central Gaza and we hope this vaccination campaign for children will be calm,
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 U.N. Palestinian refugee agency 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,
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,
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,
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,
There must be a cease-fire so that the teams can reach everyone targeted by this campaign,
said Dr. Yousef Abu Al-Rish, Gaza’s deputy health minister, describing scenes of sewage running through crowded tent camps I was terrified and waiting for the vaccination to arrive and for everyone to receive it,
said Amal Shaheen, whose daughter received a dose Due to insecurity, damage to roads and infrastructure, and the constant displacement of the population, it is unlikely that conducting the campaign for only three days in each area will be sufficient to achieve adequate vaccination coverage,
the UN agency said in a press release These are very momentary pauses from morning till mid-afternoon in each area. Considering the travel logistics for people in Gaza, this is not going to be easy for them to come and go safely,
Mukesh Kapila, a former WHO official, told Al Jazeera The other days will be in Khan Younis and the last rollout will be in the northern part of the Strip,
This is not the first time we’ve seen health facilities being directly and deliberately targeted by the Israeli military. This particular hospital was attacked in the initial weeks of this war, and hundreds of people were killed as they were in the courtyard of the hospital,
There is no hygiene, the hygiene supplies are unavailable,
They know the water from the sea is not hygienic in any state,
Louise Wateridge, a spokesperson for UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, told NBC News last month