The vaccination campaign will begin on Sunday, said Rik Peeperkorn, a senior World Health Organization official for the region.
He said the campaign would begin in central Gaza with a three-day pause in fighting, then move to southern Gaza, where there would be another three-day pause, followed by northern Gaza. Peeperkorn added that there was an agreement to extend the humanitarian pause in each area to a fourth day if necessary.
The WHO confirmed on August 23 that at least one baby had been paralyzed by the polio virus type 2, the first such case in the country in 25 years.
The Israeli military’s humanitarian unit (COGAT) said on Wednesday that the vaccination campaign will be carried out in coordination with the Israeli military “as part of routine humanitarian pauses that will allow the population to reach medical centers where the vaccines will be administered.”
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