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Polio vaccination postponed in northern Gaza due to escalating violence: WHO

The polio vaccination campaign has been postponed in northern Gaza Strip due to the escalating violence, according to a statement issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday (Oct. 23).

The WHO stated on Wednesday that it planned to carry out the vaccination campaign in northern Gaza, aiming to vaccine nearly 120,000 children.

Yet the current conditions, including ongoing attacks on civilian infrastructure, continue to jeopardize people's safety and movement in northern Gaza, making it impossible for families to safely bring their children for vaccination, and for health workers to operate, says the statement.

It is imperative to stop the polio outbreak as soon as possible, before more children are paralyzed and poliovirus spreads further, it says.

Speaking at a press briefing, Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the UN chief, said the UN and its partners have been compelled to postpone the polio vaccination campaign in northern Gaza due to the escalating violence, intense bombardment, mass displacement orders, and the lack of assured humanitarian pauses across most of the north.

He said the vaccination campaign must be facilitated in the north through the implementation of humanitarian pauses.

The Israeli military operation in the Jabalia camp and its surrounding areas in the northern Gaza Strip has killed more than 770 Palestinians in the past 19 days, the Hamas-run Gaza media office said on Wednesday.

The ongoing operation has wounded more than 1,000 others and left dozens missing, as many civilians were forcibly displaced from their homes and residential neighborhoods, the office said in a statement.

The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip has risen to 42,792, Gaza-based health authorities said in a statement on Wednesday (Oct. 23).

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