polio vaccination

105,000 Palestinian children receive polio vaccines in northern Gaza in two days

Thursday-12-September-2024

The Palestinian ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Thursday that about 105,000 children in the governorates of Gaza and North Gaza have received polio vaccines over the past two days.

IOF detains UN convoy on its way to Gaza for 8 hours

Tuesday-10-September-2024

The Commissioner-General of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, said that the Israeli occupation army stopped a UN convoy on its way to northern Gaza for more than eight hours on Monday despite prior detailed coordination.

Thousands of children in Gaza receive polio vaccines on 1st day of the vaccination campaign

Monday-2-September-2024

The spokesman for the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Ashraf al-Qudra, said on Sunday that the first day of the polio vaccination campaign launched by UNRWA in Central Gaza witnessed a great turnout.

GMO demands immediate ceasefire in Gaza to carry out polio vaccination campaign

Saturday-31-August-2024

The Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza said that the polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip requires an immediate ceasefire, stressing that the continuation of the genocide war poses a real threat to civilians.

Al-Resheq: Netanyahu’s statement on polio vaccines is misleading manipulation

Thursday-29-August-2024

The member of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ezzat al-Resheq, said on Wednesday evening that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statements about allocating certain places in Gaza to giving polio vaccines represent a new misleading manipulation.

UN, Palestinian calls for humanitarian truce to ensure delivery of polio vaccines in Gaza

Friday-23-August-2024

United Nations officials renewed the calls for a humanitarian ceasefire to ensure the delivery of polio vaccines into the Gaza Strip, as the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Strip stressed the need for a humanitarian truce to ensure a successful vaccination campaign.

Vaccination against polio, humanitarian dilemma complicated by bombing, high temperatures

Friday-23-August-2024

The ongoing bombing by the Israeli occupation army and the rise in temperatures are complicating the polio vaccination plans in the Gaza Strip.