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CAIRO/GAZA >> The United Nations, in collaboration with Palestinian health authorities, began to vaccinate 640,000 children in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, with Israel and Hamas agreeing to brief pauses in their 11-month-old war to allow the…

UN aid agencies in Gaza began to roll out a polio vaccination campaign on Sunday. But the drive could face major challenges from the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.

Families queue at vaccination centres on first day of complex campaign to inoculate children against emerging threat

The much-anticipated UN-led campaign to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of Gaza children against polio began on Sunday. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) reports that although the program technically began a day later in…

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Authorities plan to vaccinate children in central Gaza until Wednesday before moving on to the more devastated northern and southern parts of the strip. The campaign began with a small number of vaccinations on Saturday and aims to reach…

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies on Sunday began a large-scale campaign of vaccinations against polio in the Gaza Strip, hoping to prevent an outbreak in the territory that has been…

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies on Sunday began a large-scale campaign of…

Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Deir al- Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies on Sunday began a large-scale campaign of vaccinations against polio in the Gaza Strip, hoping to prevent an outbreak…

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The United Nations has begun its campaign to vaccinate children in Gaza against polio, which can cause paralysis.

The WHO said at least 90 per cent of children under 10 in Gaza must be immunised in the three-day period for it to be effective.

Authorities plan to vaccinate children in central Gaza until Wednesday before moving on to the more devastated northern and southern parts of the strip.

UN officials say the best way to tackle polio in the Gaza Strip is an immediate and lasting ceasefire.

The campaign was announced after Gaza recorded its first polio case in a quarter of a century last month.

The temporary, localized halt was negotiated after the virus was detected in sewage samples and an infection was confirmed in a 10-month-old boy.

Israel permitted a “humanitarian corridor” for mass polio vaccinations in designated areas of Gaza, after the disease was detected there for the first time in 25 years.

JERUSALEM -- A campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus has begun, the Health Ministry said Saturday, as Palestinians in the Hamas-governed enclave and the occupied West Bank reeled from…

It is hoped the move with prevent an outbreak in the war-torn territory.

It is hoped the move with prevent an outbreak in the war-torn territory.