Polio has reemerged in Gaza for the first time in 25 years due to Israel’s disease campaign.
Families wait to have their children receive polio vaccine as part of routine campaign at Al-Amal Hospital in southern Gaza's Khan Younis city on August 22, 2024.The UN has confirmed that a baby in Gaza has paralysis from the polio virus — the first recorded case of the disease in Gaza in 25 years due to Israel’s genocide and disease campaign against Palestinians.
“Polio will not make the distinction between Palestinian and Israeli children. Delaying a humanitarian pause will increase the risk of spread among children,” warned Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees .The reemergence of the disease in Gaza is caused by Israel’s relentless assault on sanitation services in the Gaza Strip..
If polio were to spread across Gaza’s children, it would even further jeopardize the young generation at a time when Israel is working. The Israeli military is well aware of the risk of polio; it announced shortly after polio was first detected in the region that it wouldpolio is not the only risk. Conditions are also ripe for cholera, which is spread in the same way as polio and wouldremains fearless, tough, and 100 percent independent, we still need to raise $11,000.
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