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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  • foolio949@pawb.social
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    16 days ago

    Does the source make the video any less valid? Joan Donoghue speaks for herself.

    Also, no genocide. There is a war, started by Palestine. Collateral damage sucks, and that is why most normal countries don’t start wars.

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      16 days ago

      The ICJ – which Donoghue is a part of – speaks for itself, and the ICJ tells Israel to stop their genocidal invasion. Israel as a rogue state run by a far-right government aided by its corrupt supreme court refuses to cooperate with this order and continues to commit genocide.

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        16 days ago

        The ICJ has said no such thing. You are making up antisemitic bullshit. While I don’t care for Bibi and his regime, Hamas and all Islamists must be eradicated.

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          16 days 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.