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 A Palestinian girl is vaccinated against polio, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, September 5, 2024.

UNRWA chief: Gaza polio vaccination coverage has reached 90%

By REUTERS
Trucks containing vials of polio vaccine cross into the Gaza Strip. August 25, 2024.

Polio vaccination starts in north Gaza despite obstacles

By REUTERS
A UN vehicle leads a convoy of ambulances heading towards north Gaza during a temporary truce between Israel and Hamas, near Gaza City November 24, 2023.

IDF detains terror suspect embedded within UN team in northern Gaza

 A PALESTINIAN CHILD is vaccinated against polio, amid the Israel-Hamas war, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip last week.

Vaccine pauses are not a political matter amid Gaza’s polio outbreak

By ORA PALTIEL , NADAV DAVIDOVITCH , RONIT CALDERON MARGALIT
 THE WORLD Health Organization in Geneva: The writer asserts that October 7 brought to the fore two of the most critical questions of the day – to be or not to be? And to disengage or reengage?

Polio vaccination targets surpassed for Gaza children, WHO says

By REUTERS
 A Palestinian child is vaccinated against polio, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, August 31, 2024.

Gaza polio vaccine campaign begins, Netanyahu's office says no ceasefire will occur

By MAARIV
A Palestinian boy receives polio vaccine at a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern of Gaza Strip February 23, 2014.

Gaza virus outbreak: Understanding the threat of Type 2 Polio

By SIMCHA PASKO/THE MEDIA LINE
Trucks containing vials of polio vaccine cross into the Gaza Strip. August 25, 2024.

Israel coordinates entry of over a million polio vaccines into Gaza

Synagogue desecrated in Hebron

This week in Jewish history: Polio vaccine, Hebron massacre, Zionists

By Steven Drucker
A Palestinian boy receives polio vaccine at a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern of Gaza Strip February 23, 2014.

Gaza's polio vaccination rate hits 90% with 282,000 vials distributed

A Palestinian boy receives polio vaccine at a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern of Gaza Strip February 23, 2014.

UN chief calls for assurances of humanitarian pauses for polio vaccination campaign in Gaza

By REUTERS
Israel, UAE, WHO evacuate Palestinian patients from Gaza for medical treatment abroad

WHO chief Tedros says polio detected in Gaza, appeals for action

By REUTERS
 Logo of the World Health Organization.

Polio cases 'very likely' in Gaza population, WHO says

By REUTERS
 Palestinian children react near the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 24, 2924.

WHO sends over 1 million polio vaccines to Gaza to protect children

By REUTERS
A coronavirus vaccine dose is seen being administered at a Meuhedet vaccination center in Jerusalem, on February 16, 2021.

IDF begins vaccinating soldiers in Gaza against polio

 Paul Alexander, who died on Monday, was one of the last people alive to live inside an iron lung.

Texas man who lived seven decades in iron lung dies at age 78

By REUTERS
 A polio worker administers polio vaccine to a child, who arrived from the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, during a vaccination campaign at a bus stop in Rawalpindi May 13, 2014.

Pakistan polio vaccine campaign at center of bombing that killed 6 police officers

By ARSHAD MEHMOOD/THE MEDIA LINE
 Disability rights activist Stella Young met with Judy Heymann

Judy Heumann, Jewish disability advocate who spurred a movement, dies at 75

By PHILISSA CRAMER/JTA