The spokesperson for UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Stéphane Dujarric, announced on Tuesday that a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza to facilitate a polio vaccination campaign represents a “ray of hope and rare humanity amidst a series of horrors,” as reported by Cairo News.
Dujarric stated, “If parties can come together to shield children from a deadly virus, then surely they can and must act to protect all innocents from the horrors of war.”
In this context, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) confirmed that, along with its partners, it successfully vaccinated 87,000 children against polio, a disease that has reemerged in the Gaza Strip for the first time in 25 years, during the first day of the vaccination campaign.
