UN officials welcome progress in Gaza polio campaign, call for permanent ceasefire
Children attend a class at a tent amidst the rubble of collapsed buildings in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Photograph: Bashar Taleb/AFPMore than 40,861 Palestinians have been killed and 94,398 have been wounded in Israel ’s military offensive on Gaza since on October 7th, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
UNRWA said that three days into the campaign in areas of central Gaza around 187,000 children have received the vaccine. The campaign will move to other areas of the enclave in the second stage.Israel-Gaza war: Israeli forces reportedly kill 33 Palestinians across Gaza in past 24 hoursThe campaign was triggered by the discovery of a case of polio in a baby boy last month, the first in Gaza in 25 years.
Palestinians say a key reason for the return of polio is the collapse of the health system and the destruction of most of Gaza's hospitals. Israel accuses Hamas of using hospitals for military purposes, which the Islamist group denies. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on Monday that Israeli troops would remain in the Philadelphi corridor on the southern edge of Gaza, one of the main sticking points in reaching a deal.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces continued to battle Hamas-led fighters in several areas of the enclave, saying they had killed many senior Hamas operatives and struck military infrastructure and command centers in the past day.
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