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UNICEF: Gaza fighting pauses agreed to for polio vaccinations
Humanitarian pauses have been agreed to allow a second round of polio vaccinations targeting 590,000 children under the age of 10 to start in the Gaza Strip on October 14, according to the head of the UN children’s agency UNICEF.
“Area-specific humanitarian pauses have been agreed. It is critical that these pauses are respected by all parties. Without them, it is impossible to vaccinate the children,” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said in a statement.
Israeli forces block fuel to Gaza hospitals as supplies run low: Media office
Israeli forces have turned back fuel supplies intended for hospitals in Gaza City and North Gaza for the fifth consecutive time, the territory’s Government Media Office has said in a news release.
As a result, the statement warned that all hospitals and Health Ministry facilities are at risk of halting operations within 24 hours due to insufficient fuel, with some facilities already running on empty.
“We are facing a complete crime being carried out by the occupation army within the framework of destroying the health system and hospitals,” the statement reads.
Wounded Palestinians, including children, are brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city for treatment after the Israeli army attacked the Rafida school, in Deir el-Balah, Gaza on October 10
WFP: Gaza food distribution halted in October
The UN World Food Programme says on X that a lack of supplies forced its teams to stop distributing aid parcels this month. In the North Gaza governorate, the agency said, the WFP is “no longer able to distribute food in any form”.
It added that in the central and southern Strip, there is currently no aid distribution and bakeries are running out of flour, but hot meal kitchens are still operating in some areas.
Back in July, UN experts said that famine had already arrived in the Gaza Strip.
“Israel’s intentional and targeted starvation campaign against the Palestinian people is a form of genocidal violence and has resulted in famine across all of Gaza,” 10 independent UN experts, including the special rapporteur on the right to food and the special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, said in a statement at the time.
