Israeli strikes kill 12 Palestinians in Gaza as polio vaccination resumes
- Israeli military strikes killed at least 12 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on September 6, medics reported, while health officials resumed polio vaccinations for children.
- Displaced families from Rafah and residents of Khan Younis crowded medical facilities to vaccinate their children against polio.
- The United Nations Palestinian refugee agency reported that 160,000 children received polio drops, with a goal to vaccinate 640,000 children under 10 in the coming days.
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This toll comes on top of the dozens of deaths caused by Israel's recent military operation in Jenin, in the West Bank.
Israeli Strikes In Gaza Kill 61 In 48 Hours As UN Pursues Vaccinations
Israeli military strikes across the Palestinian Gaza Strip killed at least 61 people in the space of 48 hours, local medics said on Saturday, as Israeli forces battled Hamas operatives in the territory. Eleven months into the war, numerous rounds of diplomacy have so far failed to clinch a ceasefire deal to end the conflict and bring the release of Israeli and foreign hostages held in Gaza as well as many Palestinians jailed in Israel. An Israel…
Israeli strikes in Gaza kill more than dozen as health workers press on with polio vaccines
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip -- Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip killed more than a dozen people overnight into Saturday morning, hospital and local authorities said, as health workers were wrapping up the second phase of an urgent polio vaccination campaign designed to prevent a large-scale outbreak in the territory.
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