The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that the campaign to vaccinate 640,000 children in Gaza against polio had so far been more successful than expected as families flocked to receive the treatment.

Teams of health workers delivered the two-drop oral vaccine to 161,030 children in the first two days of the roughly 10-day operation, surpassing the organization’s goal of 150,000 for the first phase of the campaign in central Gaza.

“It’s going well,” Rik Peeperkorn, the organization’s representative for the Palestinian territories, told reporters by video link from Gaza on Tuesday, describing an “almost festive” atmosphere as families went to designated sites to get their children vaccinated.

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    3 months ago

    The quote above is literally a verbatim ruling by the ICJ telling Israel to “immediately halt its military offensive” because it could “bring about the destruction in whole or in part” of the Palestinian people living in Gaza. I’m sorry that basic English literacy is antisemitic to you.