Geneva: The senior official of the World Health Organization has said that the Israeli army and the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire for three days in 3 different zones to administer polio drops to children.
According to the report of the foreign news agency Reuters, Rick Peppercorn, the senior official of the World Health Organization for Palestine, said that the polio campaign for about 640 thousand children in Gaza will start on Sunday and according to the agreement, according to the agreement, it will run from 6:00 a.m. to noon. There will be a ceasefire till 3 pm.
He said that the campaign will begin with a three-day ceasefire in central Gaza, then in southern Gaza where there will be another three-day ceasefire and then the polio campaign will begin in northern Gaza.
The UN Security Council will hold a meeting on the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
The Israeli Army’s Humanitarian Unit (COGAT) said in a statement that the operation will begin after contact with the Israeli army is part of a regular humanitarian break and will allow the public access to medical centers. Where they will be given the vaccine.
It should be noted that the World Health Organization confirmed on August 23 that two cases of polio have been reported in Gaza after 25 years.
Israel launched a war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, while Hamas arrested 250 people in attacks on various locations in Israel, and according to the Israeli army, 1,200 of its citizens were killed.
During the 10-month-long war on the Gaza Strip, the number of Palestinians martyred in the brutal operations of the Israeli army has exceeded 40,000, and according to the Ministry of Health, more than 2.3 million Palestinians have been displaced in Gaza.
Israel’s barbaric actions are being called genocide and Israel is also facing a case in the International Court of Justice and the court expressed concern where after South Africa, Spain, Turkey and other countries also accused Israel of genocide. Convicted.
