WHO: Israel agrees to daily pauses in Gaza for polio vaccinations

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00:00Close to 11 months of unforgiving aerial and artillery strikes on the ground have led to a

00:05state of tens of thousands of bodies and dreaded disease that's beginning to run rampant on the

00:11desolate and devastated streets of Gaza. As such, Israel has finally relented to allow humanitarian

00:17efforts to step in and help rein in growing cases of polio in the condemned city, as VOA's Anita

00:23Powell reports. The nine-hour humanitarian pauses begin Sunday and will continue for three days with

00:31the aim of vaccinating about 640,000 children under the age of 10, the World Health Organization

00:36official told reporters on Thursday. More than 1.2 million doses of the oral polio vaccine have

00:42been delivered to Gaza and another 400,000 are en route. I'm not going to say this is the ideal

00:49way forward, but this is a workable way forward. Not doing anything would be really bad. We have to

00:56stop this transmission in Gaza and we have to avoid the transmission outside Gaza.

01:05He said teams will begin in central Gaza and evaluate after three days if more time is needed.

01:10Then the teams would move south and finally north with each area expected to take three to five days.

01:16The first polio case the exclave has seen in 25 years turned up last month. Here he is. His name

01:23is Abdulrahman. He can't stand still or crawl like he used to. My son could crawl all around

01:31the place. He's almost a year old now and basically all babies should walk when they're one year old,

01:36but not Abdulrahman. Not anymore. He used to walk, crawl, but not anymore. He is our only son.

01:45Polio can cause irreversible paralysis in children and is spread from person to person,

01:49mainly through feces, but also through contaminated food and water. A major problem because of Gaza's

01:55collapsed water, sewage and sanitation systems. The virus is easily stopped through vaccination.

02:01Israel's ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, told VOA on Wednesday that the nation will

02:06support all the campaigns to bring vaccines into Gaza. VOA asked the White House how the

02:11Biden administration was pushing for this humanitarian pause. Officials said they are

02:15deeply concerned and committed to doing all we can to supporting the UN-led efforts.

02:21And a top UN official for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief stressed how dire the situation

02:27is. It forces us to ask what has become of our basic sense of humanity. The vaccination campaign

02:35represents a rare point of agreement in this bitter conflict where negotiations to end the war

02:40have dragged on for months. That this is unacceptable. Anita Powell, VOA News, Washington.

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