Medics distribute portable toilets to displaced Palestinians
The Israeli military’s destruction of much of Gaza’s infrastructure and blocking of humanitarian aid has left most Palestinians with little to no access to sufficient water or toilets.
As about 90 percent of the enclave remains internally displaced, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society has released these images of distributing 500 portable toilets to al-Mawasi in southern Gaza.
The PRCS Disaster Risk Management teams in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross, distributed around 500 portable toilets in several displaced persons’ gatherings in the Al-Mawasi area of #KhanYunis. pic.twitter.com/5i6QN5c5pH
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) August 25, 2024
Empty pots and long lines: Gaza’s children suffer to get food
Footage shared online and verified by Al Jazeera shows the difficulty with which children and residents of Gaza try to secure food.
Activist Anas Fteiha shared on his Instagram account a video showing long queues of children carrying empty pots and pans that they place on their heads to shield themselves from the sun as they wait.
The video also shows the happiness on their faces as they get their share of food after a long wait.
Polio vaccines reach Ramallah, no clarity on Gaza delivery
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the occupied West Bank reports that nOPV oral polio vaccines have been delivered to Ramallah after weeks of anticipation, and coordination is under way to deliver them to the Gaza Strip.
The ministry added in a press statement that the necessary cold-chain equipment to preserve the vaccines has also been brought in, according to the official Wafa news agency.
It called on international organisations to pressure Israeli authorities to stop their attacks in Gaza in order for medical teams to be able to vaccinate children in the besieged enclave, where the UN confirmed the first case of polio leading to a Palestinian baby getting paralysed.
Israeli military says polio vaccines delivered to Gaza
The Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), a unit of the Israeli Defense Ministry in charge of aid to Gaza, says polio vaccines for 1.26 million people have been delivered to the enclave via the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing.
https://x.com/cogatonline/status/1827747732037013719
‘Preparations under way’ to launch polio vaccination campaign in Gaza: Ministry
A batch of polio vaccines has arrived in the coastal enclave with “1,260,000 doses of the OPV2 vaccine and 500 vaccine cases”, the Gaza Health Ministry says. “Preparations are under way to launch the campaign in coordination with partners,” it said on its Telegram channel.
Last week, the UN said it was readying 1.6 million polio vaccine doses for the children of Gaza after the virus was found in sewage in the enclave and the first polio case in 25 years was diagnosed there this month.
