WHO says Israel has agreed pauses in Gaza fighting to allow polio vaccinations
by Julian Borger in Jerusalem and Peter Beaumont from on (#6QB8M)
Tentative announcement follows Israeli PM's hints at partial truce to help vaccination of 640,000 children
The World Health Organization has announced it has a preliminary commitment" for humanitarian pauses in fighting in the Gaza Strip to allow for the vaccination of children against polio with the first vaccinations to begin as early as this weekend.
The UN is preparing to vaccinate an estimated 640,000 children in Gaza, where the UN's global health body confirmed on 23 August that at least one baby has been paralysed by the type 2 polio virus, the first such case in the territory in 25 years.
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