The United Nations starts with a polio vaccination campaign in Gaza

The United Nations, in collaboration with the Palestinian health authorities, began vaccinating 640,000 children in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, after Israel and the Hamas movement agreed to fight short interruption periods to fight in the 11 -month war to move forward to move forward in the campaign. The World Health Organization confirmed last month that a baby was partially paralyzed; Due to the 2 -year -old polio -virus, the first condition of its kind in the strip is 25 years. The campaign began on Sunday, in areas in the central Gaza Strip and will move to other areas in the coming days. The battles are scheduled for at least eight hours over 3 consecutive days. The World Health Organization expects there to be a need to expand the fighting periods for a fourth day, and that the first round of the vaccination campaign lasts a little less than two weeks. “This is the first hours of the first phase of a large scale campaign, and it is one of the most sophisticated campaigns in the world,” says Juliet Touma, director of the United Nations Relief and Works of Palestinian Refugees (Unrwa). Toma added: “Today is a test of the parties in the struggle to stick to the stop periods in these areas to allow the Unrwa teams and other workers in the medical field by reaching children with these two very precious drops. It is a race over time.” Israel and Hamas, who have not yet reached an agreement that would end the war, said they would work together to allow the campaign to succeed. Toma continued: “Children are still at risk for the virus because it does not know boundaries, checkpoints or fighting lines. Every child in Gaza and Israel must be vaccinated to reduce the risks of the outbreak of this dreaded disease.” “In this is an ideal situation” and the World Health Organization says it should be vaccinated at least 90% of children in Gaza, with a 4 -week interruption between the two doses until the campaign succeeds, but it indicated that there are tremendous challenges in the Palestinian sector destroyed by the war. “The situation is not perfect,” the representative of the World Health Organization said in the occupied Palestinian areas. He added: “We believe that the implementation is possible if the process goes properly.” Biebercorn reported that there would be about 400 places where parents could bring their children to receive the vaccine. He added that there will also be 300 mobile teams to reach children in places where it is harder to bring children to vaccination. The Israeli armies continued to continue several houses in Rafah, near the border with Egypt, while the tanks continued their activities in the Al -Mayaytoun neighborhood, north of the city of Gaza. The Israeli army announced on Sunday that it had restored the bodies of 6 detainees from a tunnel in the southern Gaza strip, where they appeared briefly from the arrival of Israeli forces. The Gaza Ministry of Health says that at least 40 thousand and 691 Palestinians have fallen since October 7, and that other 94060 were injured in the strip. Security conditions, samples of wastewater, were collected on June 23, and the tests that confirmed the presence of a 2 -built polio -virus in 6 samples in mid -July. On August 16, United Nations Secretary General, the United Nations Child Fund, Unicef, called on the parties to the conflict to hold the Hudden humanity to allow the implementation of the vaccine campaign. A few days later, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinkkin said during a visit to Tel Aviv that Washington worked with the Israeli government on a plan to give vaccines. In turn, Robert Wood, the US Deputy Ambassador at the United Nations, said Thursday that “the basis of safety and safety conditions for humanitarian workers should be on the ground to distribute vaccines and give them to exposure and do so in safety. Children’s lives depend on their success.” The World Health Organization said on Friday that about 1.2 million doses of the polio vaccine were delivered to the Gaza Strip before the start of the campaign, and there are 400,000 doses on the way to the Palestinian areas.