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. 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 in the south of gaza. What it s going to involve and get under way as a series of three day, area specific pauses in fighting that both israel and hamas have agreed to. The key words there are area specific, so we re not talking about the formal ceasefire that diplomats have been pushing for weeks and
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
This week, we re in spain. . . . . For decades, a summer favourite of families and package holiday makers looking for some guaranteed sunshine. This month alone, around 10 million of us will have paid the country a visit. So as peak season there reaches its height, we wanted to revisit some of our adventures on the spanish mainland, starting in the southern region of andalucia, home to some eye catching names seville, cordoba, granada and the costa del sol. But amid all the recumbent sun worshippers spread out on the beaches, we found something secret hidden beneath the sands. I m meeting eddi pitcher, a writer and travel journalist who specialises in uncovering hidden places. Eddi, where are you taking me today? so we are taking the wild way to bolonia beach, and we can see that this is the way because we ve got. . . Knotted beach grass here. There are no signs. So it s. . . I said it was a wild way. I m definitely glad that eddi s here to show me the way on this one. Wow, look at t
Several u. S. Soldiers injured, including some with traumatic brain injuries in an operation that killed 15 isis militants. Welcome to fox news live, i m griff jenkins. Hey, molly. Hello, griff. I m molly line. This as vicepresident harris is lying low following her highly anticipated intervow along with her running mate tim walz. Walz is expected to campaign with harris in pennsylvania on monday. And we go to the white house for more. Lucas to you. Let s start with the daring operation in western iraq early thursday morning, the details of which we did not learn until late last night. We re hearing from officials that this was carried out by the u. S. Army s elite rangers in the 75th ranger regimen, part of the jsop, the tip of the spear, if you will, molly. The source assaulted an isis compound armed with numerous weapons, grenades and suicide vests according to central command. The american commandos launched the iran with iraqi counterparts, and seven were injuries, and five were t
Confirming to fox news that he is opposed to florida s proposed amendment that would allow unfettered abortion access across all nine months of pregnancy. Trump called the measure radical. Telling fox news that he will be voting against it. Welcome to fox news live, i m molly line. Hello to griff. Griff: great to be with you, i m griff jenkins. The former president adding that six weeks is not enough time, referring to the heartbeat protection law that governor desan a cities signed in desantis signed in 2023. David spunt is live on the set with us the fill us in with all the details. Seems that the former president kind of threading the needle here, david. Reporter: no question, griff. Abortion is a huge issue. Former president trump says that six weeks is simply problematic, by the same sense he did the not vote against that abortion bill. The former president made news during that fox news interview. He actually spoke to bryan llenas, our colleague, yesterday. Before that the pennsy