The Gaza Hamas-run Health Ministry claimed to have identified the first case of polio in the Gaza Strip on Friday. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a humanitarian ceasefire in ...

Gaza's Health Ministry said a United Nations-backed polio vaccination campaign meant to target over 600,000 children had been suspended, putting the enclave at risk of the revival of a crippling ...

Younis R. Awadallah, a doctor who was once UNICEF’s top public health specialist in Gaza, had worked through four previous ...

Israel's total siege of Gaza is entering its third month. Doctors and aid workers said they are seeing malnourished children ...

The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced the suspension of the UN-backed polio vaccination campaign, putting Gaza at risk of a resurgence of the disease that had nearly been eradicated. The campaign ...

An Israeli blockade on the entry of polio vaccines into Gaza leaves the lives of over 600,000 Palestinian children at risk, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. “The blocking of the entry of ...

Israel Steps up Gaza Strikes; Polio Vaccination Halted by Blockade By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) - The Israeli military launched one of the biggest waves of strikes in Gaza for weeks on ...

Gaza’s health authorities have been forced to halt a polio vaccination campaign in the strip due to a lack of supplies, threatening the lives of 600,000 children. Israel’s humanitarian aid ...

JERUSALEM--A campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus has begun, the Health Ministry said Saturday, as Palestinians in the Hamas-governed enclave ...

As polio reemerges in Gaza, a mother fears for her child's health In Gaza, a mother worries that her month-old son, Mohammed, could be infected with polio after the Palestinian health ministry ...