The UN’s health agency says Israel has agreed to at least three days of “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza to allow UN health officials to administer polio vaccinations in the territory. That means that the humanitarian pauses could potentially continue after the three days.
WHO says that the agreement is for pauses for eight hours a day, between 6am and 3pm local time.
The United Nations is preparing to vaccinate an estimated 640,000 children in Gaza, where the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on August 23 that at least one baby has been paralysed by the type 2 polio virus, the first such case in the territory in 25 years.
On July 30, the Health Ministry in Gaza declared the Palestinian territory to be a “polio epidemic zone”, blaming the reappearance of the virus on Israel’s 10-month military offensive and the resulting destruction of health facilities.
Al Jazeera’s Kristen Saloomey joins us live from the United Nations.
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