'Sewage has overwhelmed the streets after months of heavy bombardments'

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00:00In Deir el-Bala and elsewhere in the Gaza Strip, sewage has overwhelmed the streets

00:05after months of heavy bombardments.

00:08Sewage in which the poliovirus was detected in July.

00:12And now, the disease has been found in a 10-month-old baby.

00:16Having one case means that the virus is present in the Gaza Strip and we can confirm there

00:22may be infected people not yet detected.

00:24We are talking about an epidemic.

00:27This virus will not just stay in the Gaza Strip, nor just in the West Bank or Palestine.

00:31It will spread to neighbouring countries, the region and the whole world.

00:37For the international community, it's time to act.

00:41Polio can cause irreversible paralysis in a matter of hours.

00:44It has been 25 years since polio was last detected in the Gaza Strip and the United

00:49Nations has sounded the alarm.

00:51Let's be clear.

00:53The ultimate vaccine for polio is peace and an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.

01:00But in any case, a polio pause is a must.

01:05It is impossible to conduct a polio vaccination campaign with war raging all over.

01:12The World Health Organisation and UNICEF have also previously called for a seven-day

01:16humanitarian pause in order to vaccinate 640,000 children under the age of 10.

01:23More than 1.6 million doses are due to be delivered to Gaza by the end of August but

01:27these vaccination campaigns require considerable logistics.

01:32Medical teams need money, fuel to get around and functioning internet to warn the population.

01:38But the Israeli army controls all the entrances to the Gaza Strip and only a handful of aid

01:44workers are still able to enter the territory.

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