WHO Announces Three-Day Pause in Gaza War for Polio Vaccination
News - Middle East: The Israeli military and Hamas have agreed to three-day pauses in fighting in the Gaza Strip to allow for the vaccination of some 640,000 children against polio, a senior UN World Health Organization official says.
Rik Peeperkorn, WHO’s representative in the Palestinian territories, said the so-called “humanitarian pauses” will start Sunday in central Gaza and last just eight or nine hours each day for three days.
That will be followed by another similar pause in southern Gaza and then another in northern Gaza.
Noting that the campaign aims to vaccinate 640,000 children under 10, Peeperkorn told reporters via video conference that health workers -more than 2,000 from UN agencies and Gaza’s Health Ministry- might need additional days to complete the vaccinations.
“We need this humanitarian pause,” he said, adding “And that has been very clear. We have an agreement on that, so we expect that all parties will stick to that.”
The WHO stressed that at least 90% of children in Gaza should be vaccinated to stop the transmission of polio.
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