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
The guided bombs that moscow used to attack kharkiv, they are not as precise as ballistic rockets or cruise missiles. Their main purpose, their main aim is to cause devastation and this is exactly what the kremlin wants to achieve, kyiv says. Therefore they asked their partners to provide them with long range weapons and president zelensky has already responded to this attack by once again calling on his partners to allow them to use these weapons to hit targets deep inside russia. Ukraine currently cannot use weapons provided, such as storm shadows and other missiles, to hit deep inside russia and the ukrainian partners say that if they allow them to do so, it will only escalate the war. However, the ukrainian authorities say that these weapons will be used only to hit military targets such as airfields from where russian bombers take off and attack ukrainian cities. On friday, ukraine s president zelensky fired the head of the ukrainian air force, mykola oleshchuk, days after an f 16
Face to face with the man they believe led hamas here. Inside the white car, wissam khazem, shot dead by the army. And with him, two other men who tried to escape. Killed in an airstrike as they ran. Israel says all were involved in shooting and bombing attacks. The eastern areas ofjenin and its refugee camp have both been sealed off for the last three days and there are fresh reports of casualties including an 82 year old man who paramedics said was shot nine times. This morning, the army pulled out of the camp in tulkarem. The destruction there enough to remind residents of a war. Umm yazan said the army laid wires from this woman s home to blow up two houses opposite. Families she has known for decades. Translation: i have tenyearold triplets | and they trapped us in a room and then they started the explosions. Five explosions in total. Imagine the walls shaking and your children clinging to you. It feels like we are in gaza. We met fadwa, stranded by the rubble that used to be he
With him, two other men who tried to escape. Killed in an air strike as they ran. Israel says all were involved in shooting and bombing attacks. The eastern areas of janine and its refugee camp have both been sealed off for the past three days and there are fresh reports of casualties including an 82 year old man who paramedics said was shot nine times. This morning the army pulled out of the camp. The destruction of their comment enough to remind residents of the war. They say the army lead wires from her home to blow up two of the houses opposite. Families she has known for decades. Translation: i have a 10yearold triplets and they trapped us in the room. Then they started the explosions. Five explosions. Imagine the walls shaking and your children clinging to you. It feels like we are in gaza. We met this lady. Translation: they told us we have channels and we smuggle people. The water drill dug into the floor and all he found was a sewage drain. Later she shows us the broken floor.
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