The campaign was organised after a baby waS Partly paralysed by the first case of the virus in two decades. From jerusalem, our Middle East correspondent, Yolande Knell reports. 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 Hell never be able to walk. He was the first child found he was the first child found to have polio in gaza in 25 to have polio in gaza in 25 years, and it years, and it paralysed his leg. Paralysed his leg. Because of the war he wasnt because of the war he wasnt vaccinated and now vaccinated and now medical care is limited. Medical care is limited. Translation he wants translation he wants to live an
Difficult, especially with the degree of disruption of the infrastructure but i think that there is a lot of experience on delivering polio vaccine campaigns in difficult circumstances and if you ve got three essential things you can get success and one is having vaccine, people stood vaccinating and people to be vaccinated. I have every hope that it will be a success. With the pauses in the fighting that have been agreed, did they were maybe going on for as long as necessary for this to be implemented or other weight workers under a time pressure to get vaccinations? my understanding to get vaccinations? ij i understanding is to get vaccinations? m: understanding is that to get vaccinations? m; understanding is that they said daytime pauses for three days with an option for a fourth day but again, i sincerely hope that if the work isn t completed, there will be more opportunities to get every child vaccinated. That is what will be needed. will be needed. With the vaccination will b
To be vaccinated. And i have every hope that it will be a success. With the pauses in the fighting that have been agreed. Do they go? will they be going on for as long as is necessary for this to be implemented, or are the aid workers out there under a time pressure to roll out the vaccinations? my understanding is that these are daytime pauses for three days with an option for a fourth day. But again, i sincerely hope that if the work isn t completed, there will be more opportunities to get every child vaccinated, because that s what will be needed. With the vaccination programme. As it stands then, with the caveats and limitations, how likely do you think it is to tackle this resurgence in polio in the area? i m sure it will be difficult for the logistic reasons that are pretty obvious. But again, if a success is achieved and a second round will be needed in september, then hopefully this transmission of polio virus will be stopped and it s really important that it is stopped. How cr
Of extremism in order, it says, to try to stop organisations which promote hatred, violence and intolerance. And there has been a backlash to it. It will be used to help decide if groups are able to receive public money. Critics say the measure threatens freedom of speech. Here is a look at it. This includes those who intentionally create a permissive environment for others to achieve those aims. Five groups will have their activities measured against this new definition. Speaking from the commons, michael gove outlined some of the reasons behind this change in definition. Our democracy and our values of inclusivity and tolerance are under challenge from Extremist Groups which are radicalising our young people and driving greater polarisation within and between communities to further their own ends. In order to protect our Democratic Values and enhance Social Cohesion, it is important both to reinforce what we all have in common and to be clear and precise in identifying the dangers po
Its ahead of a planned Ground Offensive in the Southern City of rafah, where about 1. 5 Million People are sheltering. It is being reported this morning, not a huge amount of detail what those humanitarian islands would look like. It is right at the very southern end of the gaza strip, where more than half of the population is now sheltering and is a place where israel has said it needs to carry out a military Ground Offensive because it says in order to achieve its aim of fully removing hamas run gaza, the only way to do thatis hamas run gaza, the only way to do that is target hamas s remaining leadership when they are believed to be in and among civilians sheltering in rafa. Of course this remains an operation which has questions attached, certainly the word ireland is interesting because a central part of the gaza strip has been left severely damaged by months of Israeli Ground and air attacks. People who live there have left their homes, been going back to those areas but of course