In gaza have started vaccinating some babies against polio, a day before a mass immunisation programme is due to begin. Palestinian health workers carried out the vaccinations in nasser hospital in khan younis. Unicef says the vaccinations will take place for six and a half hours every day until wednesday. Israel and hamas have agreed to three localised pauses in fighting to enable the vaccination of more than 600,000 palestinian children. Our middle east correspondent yolande knell sent this new report from jerusalem. Just two drops as the un begins vaccinating against polio in gaza. A dose is easy to give, but carrying out a mass immunisation campaign in a combat zone is a huge challenge. Parents of the first vaccinated children are relieved. Translation: i was worried and afraid because this is scary. The polio disease. This disease makes the children unable to move. Baby abdulrahman was crawling early, but now his mum worries he ll never be able to walk. He was the first child foun
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President harris facing claims of flipflopping now former president trump accused of changing his stance on abortion. Israel says tightening its grip on terrorists in the west bank. Of a target. American soldiers are injured or killed 15 isis fighters. Good evening i am jon scott and this is the fox report. U. S. Central command announcing the raid president biden in delaware. He and vice president kamala harris are expected back in the spotlight next week for their expected to agree to get a campaign rally in the pivotal state of pennsylvania. Lucas tomlinson has life in the white house with more. Good evening. American soldiers in the elite 75th ranger regiment part of the military joint special operations command carried out the daring raid early thursday morning. We are told the assault force hidden isis compound 15 islamic state fighters were killed including some trying to escape. The building was armed with numerous weapons, grenades and explosive suicide belts were told the ame
Translation: as soon as i heard about the start of the polio vaccination campaign, i came. My son was the first child to get the vaccine. Today, there was one shot and another in four weeks. By that time, he will have another full dosage which will prevent him from getting the infection and any disease in the coming years. This is how the polio vaccine will be distributed throughout gaza: the world health organization campaign will be split across the territory s five governates, from north gaza through to rafah in the south. Deir al balah and khan younis have the greatest number of children under 10 more than 200,000 in each region. The who plans on having more than 200 vaccination sites in each of those regions. With more from jerusalem here s our correspondent, jon donnison. The official polio vaccination campaign doesn t start until sunday morning. It is being coordinated by the united nations but we do understand that the first babies have been vaccinated today in khan younis