The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced today that the first confirmed case of polio (polio) in the Gaza Strip.
This comes as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the parties to the conflict to give firm guarantees for a humanitarian pause in the fighting between Israel and "Hamas" so that children can be vaccinated. reported France Press and Reuters.
According to the ministry, the case is related to a 10-month-old baby who did not receive any dose of polio vaccine, located in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central part of the Gaza Strip.
Almost all of the 2.4 million residents of the Palestinian enclave have been displaced since the war began more than ten months ago.
Guterres made it clear that the UN is ready to launch a campaign to vaccinate children under the age of 10 against polio in the Gaza Strip, although he warned that the "challenges are serious".