WHO announces limited pauses in Gaza fighting to allow for polio vaccinations

Displaced infant Abdel-Rahman Abu El-Jedian, 11-month-old, who suffers from polio, is carried by his mother, centre, at a makeshift tent camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip (Abdel Kareem Hana/AP)

The United Nations’ World Health Organisation has announced that there will be limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for polio vaccinations for hundreds of thousands of children.

It comes after a baby contracted the first confirmed case in 25 years in the Palestinian territory.