On Sunday September 1, the Palestinian Ministry of Health with the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and partners began an effort to deliver polio vaccination to the more than 640,000 children in Gaza who are under 10 years of age. This effort will be accomplished by “humanitarian pauses” with cessation of hostilities in specified localities from early morning…
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