This is scary. 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
In a phone call, President Biden told the israeli Prime Minister of his deep concerns over a planned assault on rafah in southern gaza. In the last hour, the white house has said that a meeting between the us and israel to discuss rafah will likely take place next week. But Benjamin Netyanyahu has just said theres no way to destroy hamas in rafah other than by a ground incursion. All this as talks continue in qatar in a bid to secure a ceasefire deal. Lets get this report from anna foster, injerusalem. At gazas southern tip, the aftermath of another israeli air strike. 1. 4 million displaced people are now sheltering in rafah, and israel has made it clear it wants to go further. A ground offensive, it says, would remove hamas from gaza entirely. But theres International Pressure to avoid even more deaths. The message from israels allies to its leaders is getting stronger. Our position is that hamas should not be allowed a Safe Haven In Rafah or anywhere else, but a major Ground Operati
Called the open arms, hopes to use a newly opened Shipping Route to arrive in the next few days. But where the open arms will arrive remains in question. With no Functioning Port in gaza, its unclear where it will dock upon entry. Aid workers are reported building a Makeshift Breakwater off the coast to the prepare for its arrival. The open arms will set off from the port of larnaca. Its cargo includes 200 tonnes of food, as the un warns a quarter its cargo includes 200 tonnes of food, as the un warns a quarter of gazas population is on the brink of famine. The uns agency for palestinian refugees, meanwhile, they were among 16 countries who suspended funds to unrwa. But while attempts to get more aid into gaza are progressing, talks of a ceasefire are not. The head of israels Intelligence Service Accused Hamas of hardening its position in ceasefire talks, saying hamas was planning to escalate tensions during ramadan. Hamas has similarly blamed israel for a lack of progress in ceasefire
Monitoring both of these events as both the candidates are on stage a trump rally. So steve donald trump just taking the stage. Were also learning that trump met today with the parents of laken riley. What do we know about that meeting yeah. Alex, just before President Donald Trump took the stage, he held a meeting back stage. We are told with the parents who are here today, as this event, he has spoken to them by the fall by foot before. But tonight theyre here so we have were not sure if theyre going to come out with the former president , his advisers were on that, but we do know that they gave her mission for the campaign to use a picture of her on a poster that is being distributed. So nice to people at the audience in a police photo and the phrase, say her name. So this is a continuation of the Conference Plantation and immigration politics the union ansible Donald Trumps supporters in the congress flashing during that speech over immigration and over laken rileys death. Clearly
Hopes to use a newly opened Shipping Route to arrive in the next few days. But where it will arrive remains in question. With no Functioning Port in gaza, its unclear where it will dock upon entry. The open arms will set off from the port of larnaca. It taken an enormous effort to get this far with it taken an enormous effort to get this far with this it taken an enormous effort to get this far with this Relief Mission but the real challenge will come as they get closer to gaza and it may take as long as three days for them to make the 210 nautical miles from cyprus to gaza but when they get there, they will arrive in a territory with no Functioning Port so they have to offload the aid and in the north of gaza, distributing aid is the most badly affected and desperately in need part of gaza, distributing aid there is extremely difficult. All Law And Order has broken down, absolute chaos on the ground so they will also have to manage that. That will be a Great Success if they managed to