Polio vaccination campaign gets underway in war-ravaged Gaza

United Nations agencies together with Palestinian health authorities on Sunday began a large-scale campaign of vaccinations against polio in the Gaza Strip.

Israel and Hamas agreed to brief pauses in their 11-month war to allow it to go ahead after a first case of the virus in 25 years was registered in the enclave.

The World Health Organization (WHO) last month confirmed that a 10-month-old boy was partially paralysed by the polio…