Successive Israeli evacuation orders in Gaza have displaced 90 percent of its 2.1 million residents since the Israel-Hamas war began in October, the top U.N. humanitarian official for the Palestinian territory says.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris says she and President Joe Biden are working to end the war in Gaza, where the International Rescue Committee says the polio virus has been circulating for the first time in a quarter-century because of the destruction of hospitals and water infrastructure, along with overcrowded living conditions.
The United Nations is stepping up its demand for humanitarian pauses in fighting in Gaza to vaccinate more than 600,000 children against polio following the World Health Organization’s confirmation that a 10-month-old unvaccinated baby has polio and is partly paralyzed.
It is the first internationally confirmed polio case in Gaza in 25 years.
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