More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, the territory’s Health Ministry says

Gaza records first polio case in 25 years as UN urges vaccinations

Gaza has recorded its first polio case in 25 years, the Palestinian health ministry said on Friday, after UN chief Antonio Guterres called for pauses in the Israel-Hamas war to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of children.Tests in Jordan confirmed the disease in an unvaccinated 10-month-old from the central Gaza Strip, the health ministry in Ramallah said.According to the United Nations, Gaza, now in its 11th month of war, has not registered a po…

Gaza records first polio case in 25 years

Analysis of sewage samples had first detected the presence of the virus in the region in June.

While the world’s eyes are on Gaza, Palestinians see a land grab underway in the West Bank

Not long after Hamas launched the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel and sparked the now 10-month war in the Gaza Strip, another killing was reported in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Health Ministry announced on Friday the first confirmed case of polio in the Gaza Strip that was free of the disease in 25 years.

Gaza records first polio case in 25 years as UN calls for truce

The Health Ministry in Gaza has said that it detected the first polio case in the besieged strip.

In view of the threat of the spread of the polio virus in the Gaza Strip, UN Secretary-General Guterres has called for a pause in the fighting so that hundreds of thousands of children can be vaccinated. Meanwhile, the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health reported the first confirmed case of polio in the Gaza Strip.