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Second phase of polio vaccination campaign in Gaza
Palestinian children wait at an UNRWA clinic as the second phase of a polio vaccination campaign begins in Gaza
The campaign will last for three days with a possibility of extending it for one more. The first phase ended on September 12 with more than 560,000 children receiving their initial dose of the vaccine.
For the oral polio vaccine, a minimum of two doses is needed to interrupt transmission of the virus.
MSF mourns worker who was killed in Gaza’s Jabalia
Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, says one of its workers was killed in northern Gaza on October 8 during a renewed Israeli offensive in the area.
Nasser Hamdi Abdelatif al-Shalfouh, 31, was killed “by shrapnel injuries he suffered to his legs and chest” in Jabalia, MSF said in a statement.
“Nasser died from his injuries on 10 October in Kamal Adwan Hospital. He is survived by his wife and two children,” the organisation added, as it condemned “the tragic killing”.
“[Al-Shalfouh] was unable to receive the necessary level of care due to the hospital’s lack of capacity and an overwhelming number of patients in the facility.”
For more than a week now, Jabalia has been under relentless attack by the Israeli army. Al-Shalfouh joined MSF as a driver in March 2023 but had not been working since the war started a year ago, as the group’s activities in North Gaza were severely affected, the medical charity said.
Gaza Civil Defence agency says two members injured in al-Mawasi
The rescue workers were “exposed to Israeli bullets and shells” when they responded to a call by wounded Palestinians in the Israeli-designated “safe zone” in southwestern Gaza.
The injured have yet to be rescued, said a spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defence.
Displaced Palestinians shelter in a tent camp, at the al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip
