(1 Sep 2024)
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Deir Al Balah, Central Gaza Strip – 01 September 2024
1. Various of children with parents waiting to get polio vaccination
2. Close of polio vaccination bottle
3. Worker preparing vaccination
4. Various of children receiving polio vaccination
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fatima Abu Loghon, mother of four children who received the vaccine today:
"We are living in (dire) conditions, in a tent. Water is not clean. Food is not clean. I have come here to vaccinate them. I was afraid that my children would contract the disease. Previously we heard that there are (polio) cases in Gaza, so I came because I am concerned about them.”
6. Various of children receiving polio vaccination
7. Close of polio vaccination bottle
8. Girl receiving polio vaccination
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Wafaa Obaid, mother of three children who received the vaccine:
"This is one of a series of diseases that spread during the war, and this disease is frightening. From the moment we heard about it, we were afraid. We escaped death with our children and were displaced from place to place for the sake of our children, and we found these diseases. We are thankful to the institutions that contributed to vaccination and helped bring this vaccination into Gaza for our children"
10. Various of children receiving polio vaccination
11. Various of children waiting to receive polio vaccination
STORYLINE:
Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies on Sunday began a large-scale campaign of vaccinations against polio in the Gaza Strip, hoping to prevent an outbreak in the territory that has been ravaged by the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
Authorities plan to vaccinate children in central Gaza until Wednesday before moving on to the more devastated northern and southern parts of the strip.
The campaign began with a small number of vaccinations on Saturday and aims to reach about 640,000 children.
Israel has agreed to limited pauses in fighting to facilitate the campaign, according by the World Health Organization.
Hospitals in Deir al-Balah and Nuseirat confirmed that the campaign had begun on Sunday.
Wafaa Obaid, a mother of three children who received the vaccine, said she was "thankful for the vaccinations. "From the moment we heard about it, we were afraid. We escaped death with our children and were displaced from place to place for the sake of our children, and we found these diseases."
The campaign comes after the first polio case was reported in Gaza in 25 years — a 10-month-old boy, now paralyzed in the leg.
The WHO says the presence of a paralysis case indicates there could be hundreds more who have been infected but aren’t showing symptoms.
Most people who have polio do not experience symptoms, and those who do usually recover in a week or so.
But there is no cure, and when polio causes paralysis it is usually permanent.
If the paralysis affects breathing muscles, the disease can be fatal.
The vaccination campaign faces a host of challenges, from ongoing fighting to devastated roads and hospitals.
Around 90% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million people have been displaced within the besieged territory, with hundreds of thousands crammed into squalid tent camps.
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