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WHO says that the official larger vaccine rollout, which aims to reach 640,000 children, will begin on Sunday.

Learn about the challenges faced by a UN-led polio vaccination campaign in Gaza amidst conflict and ceasefire negotiations.

Palestinians in Gaza and in occupied West Bank reel from Israel’s ongoing campaigns in both regions

A health official said a polio vaccination campaign had begun in Gaza on Saturday after the war-torn territory recorded its first case of the disease in a quarter of a century.

Anera says four men who died in Gaza were locals who asked to serve as escort for convoy, but IDF describes them as ‘armed assailants’

The U.N. is about to launch an ambitious campaign to vaccinate 640,000 children in Gaza against polio, a disease that doctors fear has spread in the territory due to the massive humanitarian catastrophe unleashed by Israel's military offensive there

Public health organizations call for a ceasefire to distribute humanitarian aid and to address growing health risks

Wassem Hazem, commander in Jenin, killed in car Israel says container weapons and cash

Israel has agreed to a series of three-day "humanitarian pauses" in Gaza to allow health officials to administer polio vaccinations to children in the territory, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

Rik Peeperkorn, the World Health Organization's senior official for the Palestinian territories, said on Thursday that Israel had agreed to limited pauses in the fighting in Gaza to allow vaccinations against polio. Hamas said it is “ready to cooperate with international organisations to secure the campaign", according to a statement…

Agreement consists of temporary pauses in separate areas of Gaza with goal of vaccinating 640,000 children under 10.