The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that Israel has agreed to a series of “humanitarian pauses” to allow children in Gaza to be vaccinated against polio.
Israel decides to the polio vaccine drive
According to senior WHO official Rick Peppercorn, the campaign will begin on Sunday with the goal of vaccinating about 640,000 young people in the Gaza Strip.
It will be implemented in three phases, covering the central, southern and northern parts of the Strip. In each phase, the fight will take a three-day break between 06:00 and 15:00 local time.
The deal comes just days after UN officials revealed a 10-month-old baby was left mostly paralyzed after contracting the first polio in Gaza in 25 years.
About 1.26 million doses of the novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) are currently in Gaza, with an additional 400,000 doses expected soon.
The campaign will be conducted “in collaboration with the Palestinian Ministry of Health, WHO, UNICEF and UNRWA“. More than 2,000 health and community outreach professionals have been trained to administer the vaccine.
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WHO aims to achieve 90% vaccination coverage across the Gaza Strip to prevent virus transmission.
There is an agreement for an additional fourth day of vaccination and a humanitarian break if necessary to complete that level of vaccination.
Poliovirus is highly contagious and is commonly spread by sewage and contaminated water.
It can cause disfigurement, paralysis and even death. It primarily affects children under the age of five.
According to the WHO, vaccination rates in Gaza and the occupied West Bank are at their pre-conflict peak. According to recent data, polio vaccine coverage was expected to be 99% in 2022, but it dropped to 89% last year.
The Israeli military said in July that it had begun vaccinating its soldiers against the illness.
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According to Hamas spokesman Bassem Naim, “We are ready to cooperate with international organizations to secure this campaign to serve and protect more than 650,000 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the three-day break was “not a ceasefire”.
The UK’s deputy permanent representative to the UN, James Kariuki, said he “strongly” supported the vaccine plan.
“We have to look at it effectively, and the intervals must be long enough to provide the required 90% coverage. “When the campaign starts and thousands of vulnerable and vulnerable children reach the vaccination sites, they must all be protected,” he said. .
Professor Hagai Levin, spokesman for the Hostage Family Forum, an organization advocating for stronger action to free Israeli hostages, urged health officials to include those currently detained in vaccination campaigns.
On 7 October Israel launched a military operation in Gaza in response to a massive attack by Hamas in southern Israel, which killed around 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.
More than 40,530 Palestinians have died in Gaza since October 7, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
