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Why is there a polio outbreak in Gaza?
3 September 2024 10:20 BST
Israel’s war on Gaza has seen the emergence of polio among Palestinians during the past few weeks.
On Sunday, a UN-led campaign began to vaccinate at least 90 percent of the territory’s children and stop the outbreak from spreading. More than 200 teams are now inoculating an estimated 600,000 children in 25 central Gaza locations in the coming days.
To do so, they have had to secure brief and localised halts in fighting between the Israeli army and Hamas while the programme is rolled out.
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