Hours after deadly attack, Gaza anti-polio campaign enters new phase

The United Nations health agency and its partners are launching a campaign to vaccinate 640,000 Palestinian children in Gaza against polio, in an effort to combat the disease. However, the campaign is being complicated by ongoing violence in the region. Israeli military strikes have killed at least 12 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including two women and two children in the Nuseirat refugee camp. The strikes have also disrupted the vaccination efforts, with an airstrike hitting near a hospital in an area where a previous round of inoculations had just concluded. Despite the challenges, the World Health Organization has confirmed that the first phase of the vaccination campaign in central Gaza has been completed, with the second phase in southern Gaza set to begin.