Gazans Need Polio Vaccines amid ‘Deathly Cycle’ of Hunger, Heat and Disease: United Nations
(UN News)* — In a bid to prevent a polio epidemic in Gaza, UN humanitarians on Tuesday [] repeated continuing international calls for a ceasefire to allow a mass vaccination campaign to get underway.
Almost 10 months of war and intense Israeli bombardment have shattered healthcare in Gaza and disrupted routine inoculation rounds for youngsters, leaving them exposed to a range of preventable diseases including polio, which the UN World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed had been identified last month in several sewage samples taken from Gaza.
Speaking to journalists in Geneva, WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier said that a ceasefire would be “the best” solution, before calling at the very least for the enclave’s roads to be kept clear and for safe access for medical and other relief supplies.
“Otherwise, the vaccines would be sitting as many other trucks are across the border, either on the Rafah side or at the other checkpoints either inside…or outside Gaza,” he said, a week since the UN health agency announced that it was sending one million polio vaccines to the Strip.
No cases of paralysis have been reported so far, according to WHO.
If a child receives the full course of vaccines, the risk of contracting paralyzing polio is “negligible”, said UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) spokesperson James Elder.
He insisted that vaccination rates had been “very high” before war erupted in response to Hamas-led terror attacks on multiple targets in southern Israel which left some 1,250 dead and more than 250 taken hostage.
“But the mass displacement, the decimation of health infrastructure, the horrendously insecure operating environment, they all make it much, much more difficult, hence putting more and more children at risk,” he said, adding that vaccination coverage was now at around 89 per cent – “hence you’ve got this increased risk for children”.
Water emergency
Condemning the reported destruction last week of a key water treatment station in the southern city of Rafah, Mr. Elder underscored the additional health dangers this had created for Gazans, now that it had been “blown up…It is yet another grim reminder of these assaults on families who are already in desperate need of water,” he said.
Today across Gaza, average water availability has fallen to between two and nine litres per person, per day, whereas the minimum should be 15 litres, Mr. Elder continued.
“Somehow people are holding on, but of course we are now in that deathly cycle whereby children are very malnourished, there is immense heat, there is lack of water, there’s a horrendous lack of sanitation and that’s the cycle. On top of that, of course, there is a very, very active conflict.”
Meanwhile, Gaza’s solid waste management system has collapsed, the UN Development Progamme (UNDP) warned in a new assessment published on Tuesday.
There is no access to major landfills, and waste is accumulating at more than 140 temporary dumping sites, the agency said, which is posing serious environmental and health risks, including a spike in diarrhoeal illness and acute respiratory infections.
The UN agency that assists the Palestinian people, UNRWA, also said that between 800 to 1,000 new hepatitis A cases are being reported weekly from its health centres and shelters across Gaza, with the lack of water, sanitation and hygiene speeding the spread of diseases.
Key cities targeted for evacuation
In its latest update issued Monday evening, the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said that more than 200,000 people in Gaza – nine per cent of the population – have been forcibly displaced by Israeli evacuation orders.
Directives issued by the Israeli authorities on Saturday and Sunday impacted Rafah, Khan Younis and Deir Al-Balah “where a combined 56,000 people had been sheltering”, OCHA said, before warning that the development comes “at a time when water, sanitation and hygiene conditions are being further eroded in Gaza, with infectious diseases on the rise”.
Source: https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2024/07/31/gazans-need-polio-vaccines-amid-deathly-cycle-of-hunger-heat-and-disease-united-nations/
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If Israel never started this fake war by allowing Hamas, their partners in crime to enter Israel though opened up border points, then none of the tragic events would have taken place. This is a planned murder scene..not a war. Israel with the best security tech in the world is making themselves the laughing stock of the world by openly lying about events just to MAKE A LANDGRAB AND TO BE RACIST NOT ALLOWING PEOPLE TO STAY in their own country that they were so willing to share with the ‘poor’ jews after their ‘ordeal’ at the hands of the ‘cruel’ heatler. Hamas never attacked Israel and the idf crisis actors pretended to be Hamas killing their own citizens as to get this evil war and even the german leader said that Hamas is not representing the Palestinians. Netanyahu is a wanted criminal by the ICC and anyone can arrest him to stand trial on war crimes, but the sinogogue of Congress in America cheered him and protected him that makes Congress part of this crime and the senators walking in the WH passages would answer journalists about the innocent children being massacared and the answer for all the world to hear was…”KILL THEM ALL, KILL THEM ALL”. What does this make of Congress people..”we the people” ??….and we allow this??One day it will be your children being killed and the world will look on and say NOTHING. WHAT DOES THIS SHOW US ” That all goyim will be treated this way, even the Chinese goyim. Don’t give them safety, give them Polio the UN says (vaccines will contain POLIO)
Isn’t it ironic that a young talented Musk could reach the HIGHEST LEVEL in life with the world at his feet, and yet also occupy the lowest level where the value of the lives of kids are concerned like those dying in Gaza, just to side with satanists for political gain and to ignore the pain and suffering.
Everytime hands would be clapped in support of the Stalinist Netanyahu is like the clap of bullets fired into those small bodies….No wonder people like Erdogan will stand up like a child’s hero to try and go and save them from this ordeal.