Source: BBC (Arabic)

The director of primary health care at the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced the start of the polio vaccination campaign in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday, after the United Nations announced Israel’s approval of “humanitarian truces” to allow children to be vaccinated, each lasting three days in the central, southern and northern Gaza Strip, to implement a polio vaccination campaign that includes 640,000 children throughout Gaza.

Abed told AFP that the Ministry of Health teams, in cooperation with the United Nations and non-governmental organizations, began “today the polio vaccination campaign in the central region.”

Israeli authorities said vaccines would be administered from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. from Sunday to Tuesday in the central Gaza Strip.

For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed that these temporary truces “are not a ceasefire.”

The campaign came after UN officials reported that a 10-month-old baby had been partially paralyzed, the first documented case of polio in Gaza in 25 years.