Despite Hamas Terror Attacks, Israel Undertook Massive Polio Vaccination Campaign In Gaza
IDF: “According to the @WHO, about 90% of the population in Gaza was vaccinated against polio in the first quarter of 2024.”
In 2022, New York State reported its first case of the potentially debilitating disease polio since 2013. Subsequently, genetically similar samples of the virus were found in sewage. Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency.
A massive polio vaccination campaign was launched. In March 2024, the Rockland area, where the polio case was reported, had polio-free water for an entire year.
A similar situation has now occurred in Gaza. The first case in 25 years has been reported, and the virus has now been detected in wastewater.
Tests in Jordan confirmed the disease in an unvaccinated 10-month-old from the central Gaza Strip, the health ministry in Ramallah said.
According to the United Nations, Gaza, now in its 11th month of war, has not registered a polio case for 25 years, although type 2 poliovirus was detected in samples collected from the territory’s wastewater in June.
It is important to note that 95% of Gazans have received a polio vaccination already.
Polio in Gaza: 🧵 1/6
💉 95%+ Gazans are immunized against polio
💉 Israel is working with @WHO & @UNICEF to get 1.3m more vaccines into Gaza
💉 UNICEF campaign will cover 600,000 children under 10 for new mutation
》》》 pic.twitter.com/j1RsS1ZSyo— COGAT (@cogatonline) August 18, 2024
A massive vaccination campaign is being organized to get shots to 1,000,000 children.
💉According to the @WHO , about 90% of the population in Gaza was vaccinated against polio in the first quarter of 2024.
282,126 vials of the polio vaccine, sufficient for 2,821,260 doses, have been sent to Gaza since the beginning of the war. Since the discovery of the presence… pic.twitter.com/VOogBFWwvU
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) August 18, 2024
And while a vaccination campaign would likely be effective, the situation is being used to try and force Israel to pause its efforts in Gaza for seven days.
They say the ambitious vaccination plans are impossible, though, without a pause in the fighting between Israel and Hamas.
We are anticipating and preparing for the worst-case scenario of a polio outbreak in the coming weeks or month,” Francis Hughes, the Gaza response director at CARE International, told The Associated Press.
The World Health Organization and UNICEF, the United Nations children’s agency, said in a joint statement Friday that, at a minimum, a seven-day pause is needed to carry out a mass vaccination plan.
In an effort to establish a ceasefire, all the panic words are being used to describe the situation, such as “ticking time bomb.”
Authorities in the central Gaza city of Deir el-Balah this week predicted that “roads will be flooded by wastewater” and “diseases will spread” after it turned off sewage water pumping and treatment stations.
“We’re talking about a very grim medical reality,” said Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah, where 700,000 people have arrived in search of safety from fighting and air strikes.
The Israeli military’s escalation of attacks on “water wells, sanitation and water waste treatment”, and its obstruction of “essential hygiene supplies” into the Strip had created a “suitable environment for the spread of different diseases,” he said
….Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan, a paediatric intensive care physician, told Al Jazeera the presence of the virus in sewage was a “ticking time bomb”.
There is a reason that the horseman Pestilence rides with those of war, hunger, and death. When Hamas-led forces decided to attack innocent Israelis on October 7th, they invited all of these riders into their world.
Israeli is clearly willing to help with the vaccination campaign.
COGAT conducts in-depth situational assessments twice a week with the Ministry of Health, the WHO, and UNICEF to understand the status of the spread of the virus in Gaza. Additionally, specific meetings are held to implement vaccinations among the population in Gaza in cooperation with USAID.
….Furthermore, as part of the medical response provided by the State of Israel, COGAT maintains continuous contact and conducts situational assessments with all health system stakeholders and the international community for ongoing monitoring of the medical situation in Gaza. As part of this effort, since the beginning of the war, the State of Israel has facilitated the establishment of 14 field hospitals in Gaza, alongside the entry of 2,566 trucks carrying 25,955 tons of medications and medical equipment into Gaza, which have been distributed to the population.
It’s up to Israel to assess how to proceed, based on its own interests and risk assessments, given the fact over 90% of the populace has been vaccinated and of the children who do get infected, only one in 200 experiences irreversible paralysis.
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In spite of the war, Israel tries to do right by the Gazans as much as they can but Hamas intentionally screws things up. How long will it be until the Hamas idiots tell the Gazans that Israel is injecting their children with some disease meant to wipe out this generation instead of polio vaccine?
Probably not long.
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“282,126 vials of the polio vaccine, sufficient for 2,821,260 doses…”
Guess the argument over the safety of the Sabin live virus oral vaccine has finally been settled in favor of the Salk dead virus injected method. And yet in various Wiki and other articles Sabin is still being touted as the savior of children from Polio, as if the Salk vaccine wasn’t first to be used for wholesale vaccination of school children (and often not even mentioned as existing).
Which one was jewish
Both. Did you have a point behind that question?
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Every time you do one of these stories, make sure you throw this graphic in.
It is the illustration of everyday life there.
Don’t get sewage on you.
Who knew?
Announce, to avoid the spread of Polio, please keep six feet from each other.
That part of the world is metric. So, it’s just shy of 6 ft and 7 in.
That’s harder to avoid when you (or your
Corollary- don’t rip out sewer pipes to make rockets and don’t live under t
“Apocalypse Now” – Colonel Kurtz’s monologue
” I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn’t see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember… I… I… I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn’t know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized… like I was shot… like I was shot with a diamond… a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God… the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were men… trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love… but they had the strength… the strength… to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral… and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling… without passion… without judgment… without judgment. Because it’s judgment that defeats us.”
the usa is in short supply with our new military agenda:
You have to have men who are moral… and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling… without passion… without judgment… without judgment. Because it’s judgment that defeats us.”
it is documented that the israeli gov treats the plo with respect
when attacked by the same
israel stops them asap
but of course lefty globalist pos want to actually use those times to attack israel as the evil
Sure sounds like genocide to me.
well that is the goal of the hamasholes and lefty in general
But all the best people, including genocidal Hamas and its fans around the world, keep telling me that genocide is Israel‘s goal. It’s so hard to know who to believe these days.
this story really is bigger than this
it shows the cultures and how they operate at different moral levels
stoneage tribalism that lefty wants for the population in the usa
and well educated hard working people who will try their best to do their best>>patriots
Hmm, self interest and self preservation I think plays a bigger role. Nothing wrong with that, but I think to give them a higher moral ground is pushing it. I believe Israeli has a right to self determination and self defense. Considering we are dealing with Hamas and the regular cast of characters, it is not hard to be high moral grounds.
not GIVING (israel) them the higher moral ground
they have made it that way via their actions
People with a certain worldview, unfortunately, are convinced that anything a Jew earns (or buys at a fair or even exorbitant price, like pre-independence purchases of land in what is today Israel and the disputed territories) was not earned or purchased but stolen.
Hamas will intentionally infect the children with polio, you watch.