Polio vaccine campaign begins in Gaza day before fight expected to pause

A campaign to immunize children in the Gaza strip against polio that was launched by the Health Ministry came at a time when Palestinians hope of help from foreign aid as they suffer from Israeli aggressive military operations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. 
 
At the same time, Israel’s military Saturday evening, announced in a brief statement that the Israeli forces had found some bodies during one of its operations in the Gaza strip. There was confusion as to which of them was a hostage and which was a rebel but the army stated that it would take several hours to determine that. Its request was to stop the circulation of rumours, it said. As we rose from the table there were no other details that was given. 
 
On Saturday; only a limited number of children in the east received vaccine doses a day before mass; and the cease-fire announced in Gaza and Israel and the UN World Health Organisation. 
 
At least there should be a little stop and pause for the continuous attacks so that the targeted groups could be reached by these teams said Dr Yousef Abu Al-Rish , the Gaza’s deputy health minister depicting the some graphic pictures of sewage being in flooded in some cramped up tentages. Polio, as we all know is contracted through the fecal oral route. 
 
About 10 children were administered doses when AP reporters visited Nasser hospital in Khan Younis. 
 
She added that at that time, she waswaiting for the vaccination to come and for all to take it including her daughter, Amal Shaheen. 
 
The first statement of Israel regarding the campaign was that the vaccination would go on till 9 September and will be a continuous process lasting eight hours. It is likely to temporarily cease some engagements in Gaza for the vaccinating health professionals for som 640,000 Palestinian kids. 
 
The vaccination will follow the confirmation of first polio case in 25 years in Gaza this month. The virus attack ended in the partly disabling a 10-month-old infant through contracting a mutation of the disease since the baby had not been immunized due to fighting. Although this disease is nonfatal, most patients who acquire the infection do not show any symptoms and, therefore, remain asymptomatic while a small percentage of infected patients develops mild flu-like symptoms, which generally resolves within one to two weeks. Furthermore, there is no treatment, as far as I am concerned. 
 
Healthcare workers in the Gaza Strip have been predicting possible polio epidemic for several months. The social and humanitarian situation in the territory has worsened in the conflict that began when Hamas-led militants crossed into southern Israel on October 7, 2000 and killed more than 1,200 people and kidnapped about 250. In the counter attack, more than 40 000 Palestinians have been killed as confirmed by Gaza’s Ministry of Health without mentioning that majority, if not all, were militants. 
 
The ministry claimed that hospitals got 89 dead on Saturday including 26 who died in an overnight Israeli bombardment, 205 wounded one of the highest daily tolls in months. 
 
However, some sections in West Bank were still tense as Israel’s army pressed on with its operations considered to be huge when compared to the previous operations during the Israel-Hamas war. 
 
Two cars were blown up as two car bombs detonated in a bloc called Gush Etzion which is owned by the Israelis. Both the attackers were fatally shot by the Israeli military after the blasts in a compound in Karmei Tzur and at a gas station, Israeli military added. The military later said a soldier died Saturday during operational activities in Jenin, without details, and another was severely injured. 
 
Although Hamas did not claim the attackers as its fighters it hailed it as a heroic operation. The militant group said earlier this month that after bombing Tel Aviv it would carry out more such attacks. 
 
Israel maintained great scope of raid involving demolition of facilities, airstrikes and fight off in the refugee camps in the cities of Jenin and Tulkarem in the northern West Bank. This incursion began on Tuesday and raised the concern of international bodies because the war might spread beyond the Gaza Strip in the company of Israel. 
 
Such a medical charity organization as Doctors Without Borders stated in its press release that the group was worried by the scale and intensity of the operation launched by Israel ;it accused the Israeli forces of hindering operations of medical facilities and threatening or deliberately attacking ambulances. 
 
The Israeli military, who restrictive the intra-Gaza infiltration Wednesday, said that 23 militants had been killed preliminary of the incursion in the area, including 14 in the Jenin area. 
 
Some people fled Jenin. Sitting with her baby on her lap Bereh al-Shalabi said that she had been showered by Israeli bullets on her windows. 
 
We started shouting desperately that we have small children, but they (the Israeli soldiers) only looked at us at the beginning. The louder we shouted, the more they fired at the house, breaking the television and the windows, Neda they said. 
 
She said the family hid in their kitchen until soldiers came in: they separated women and children from men and searched everybody’s phone before freeing her. 
 
They have described West Bank operation as an effort to protect Israeli citizens from attack, which have risen during the war in Gaza including in areas that majority of the international community deem as illegitimate settlements. The Palestinian Health Ministry reported increased deaths of Palestinians by Israel forces particularly in the west Bank with at least 663 since the start of the war. 
 
Israeli airstrikes targeting a multi-story building where displaced residents live in and around Nuseirat, a built-up refugee camp in Khan Younis and in gaza city, said official of hospitals in the area. The Health Ministry claimed that it again targeted al-Ahli hospital located in Gaza City. None was reported early but the Israeli military had kept very quiet on this matter. 
 
The three countries have been for the past many months in efforts to broker a halt to the fighting that would lead to the release of the remaining hostages. But the talks have always reached somewhat of stalemate largely due to the stubbornness of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has vowed to utterly destroy Hamas and on the other hand, the demands of the militants who are only interested in a permanent ceasefire and the removal of Israeli defensive forces from the land. 

The clashes laid again Saturday night in opposition to the government and to name for a deal to liberate the ultimate hostages.