Gaza
CARE’s clinic in Gaza administers polio vaccine to thousands of children
During the first three days of the polio vaccination campaign that started on 1 September 2024, CARE vaccinated 2,124 children under the age of 10 at its primary healthcare center in Deir Al-Balah, providing each child with two drops of the novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2).
Read MoreGaza: Aid agencies and medical professionals warn of dangers of a mass polio outbreak
Aid agencies and medical professionals have joined forces to call urgently for a ceasefire to allow life-saving polio vaccinations to be administered to about 640,000 children aged under 10 following confirmation of the first case of polio in Gaza in 25 years, with reports of other suspected cases emerging.
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Places of shelter are not a target: Israeli airstrikes on UNRWA school in central Gaza
We are deeply saddened by the horrific scenes emerging from an UNRWA-run school in the Al-Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, which has been reportedly targeted by the Israeli army with multiple airstrikes in the early morning hours while displaced families were sleeping, killing 40 people, mostly women and children, according to initial reports from local authorities and the UN Relief and Works Agency
Read MoreWe Cannot Ignore the Realities
"Last week, the Biden Administration’s NSM-20 report said Israel is not impeding the provision of aid to Gaza – yet it also highlighted what CARE & other humanitarian organizations have been seeing and raising up since October: denied entry of goods; restricted movements of goods and humanitarian personnel; inadequate steps to protect humanitarian workers," says CARE President & CEO Michelle Nunn
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