UN chief: Polio vaccine campaign in Gaza amid fighting pauses a ‘rare ray of hope’
A health worker administers the polio vaccine to a Palestinian child in Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip on September 1, 2024. (Eyad Baba/AFP)
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres describes pauses in fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza to allow children to be vaccinated against polio as a “rare ray of hope and humanity in the cascade of horror,” his spokesperson says.
“If the parties can act to protect children from a deadly virus… surely they can and must act to protect children and all innocents from the horrors of war,” UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric says.
