On Thursday 29 August, the European Union called for immediate humanitarian pauses in Gaza to enable more than 640,000 children to be vaccinated against polio. After 25 years, the first case of the polio virus was detected in July.
“The EU welcomes the delivery of more than 1.2 million oral polio vaccines as well as the cooperation by Israel in delivering the vaccines to Gaza, and underlines the importance of further cooperation by all sides with WHO, UNRWA and UNICEF to conduct the...