Hamas-run health ministry declares polio epidemic in Gaza

CAIRO, Egypt — Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry declares a polio epidemic across the Palestinian enclave, blaming Israel’s military offensive.

The World Health Organization said last week there is a high risk of the poliovirus spreading across the Gaza Strip and beyond its borders due to the dire health and sanitation situation in the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave, but has yet to declare an epidemic.

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