Israel Facilitates Gaza Polio Vaccine Drive Despite Ongoing Terrorist Attacks and Hostage Murders

Israel Facilitates Gaza Polio Vaccine Drive Despite Ongoing Terrorist Attacks and Hostage Murders

The last time we visited the issue of polio in Israel, the nation conducted a polio vaccination campaign that, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), meant 90% of the population in Gaza was vaccinated against the disease as of the first quarter of 2024.

However, many young children were still unvaccinated, and a 10-month-old child contracted polio. So, over one million vaccine doses have been supplied, and NGOs have been requesting that Israel pause its battle against Hamas terrorist forces in Gaza to distribute the disease.

Israel has now done so.

Israel has agreed to a series of “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza to allow for the vaccination of children against polio, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.

The campaign will aim to vaccinate around 640,000 children across the Gaza strip and will begin on Sunday, senior WHO official Rik Peeperkorn said.

It will be rolled out in three separate stages, across the central, southern and northern parts of the strip. During each stage, fighting will pause for three consecutive days between 06:00 and 15:00 local time.

The agreement comes days after UN officials said a 10-month-old baby had been partially paralysed after contracting Gaza’s first case of polio for 25 years.

Around 1.26m doses of the novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) are already in Gaza, with 400,000 additional doses set to arrive soon.

Of course, whatever Israel does, it will never be enough for the globalists.

“We welcome the pause,” Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of WHO, said in a press briefing from Geneva. “We hope that all parties will respect that. But at the same time, we don’t think that pause is enough. We still insist on a cease-fire because ultimately the best medicine and the best vaccine is actually peace.”

Polio vaccinations have begun in Gaza.

It turns out that the WHO “experts” may be responsible for the Gaza outbreak in the first place. To understand why, it is important to realize that infections are occurring specifically because of one strain of the polio virus—Type 2.

A weakened strain in the oral vaccine mutated, and unvaccinated people are at risk for contracting the disease (especially if they live in areas without effective sanitation).

Type 2 polio, also known as circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2), is one of three poliovirus strains. Unlike the naturally occurring form of the virus, wild poliovirus, cVDPV2 emerges from the oral polio vaccine (OPV). The OPV contains a weakened, live form of the poliovirus, which replicates in the intestines and builds immunity by triggering an immune response.

During this replication process, the vaccine virus is excreted and can spread within the community, particularly in areas with inadequate sanitation, offering passive immunization to others. However, in rare cases, especially in areas with low immunization rates, this weakened virus can mutate into a more contagious form and begin circulating in the population.

While not inherently more dangerous than types 1 and 3, cVDPV2 has been responsible for most polio outbreaks in recent years. These outbreaks are concerning because the mutated virus can cause paralysis in those infected, similar to the effects of wild poliovirus, as seen in the Gaza case. The spread of cVDPV2 is primarily through the fecal-oral route, which can be transmitted via contaminated water or food, making populations with compromised sanitation systems, such as Gaza, particularly vulnerable.

The initial vaccination campaigns utilizing the oral doses were great for those who got the vaccine. However, given the conditions in Gaza—brought on by poor choices made by Hamas—those who were unvaccinated were at risk. However, WHO continued its polio vaccine campaign, assuming it could contain and control outbreaks before the mutated virus became a problem.

Public health authorities knew that decision would leave people unprotected against that particular strain, but they thought they had a plan to ward off and quickly contain any outbreaks. Instead, the move resulted in a surge of thousands of cases.

“It was a really horrible strategy,” said Columbia University virologist Vincent Racaniello, who was not involved with the report or the WHO. “The decision to switch vaccines was based on an incorrect assumption, and the result is now we have more polio and more paralyzed children.”

A draft copy of the report commissioned by the WHO and independent experts said the plan underestimated the amount of the strain in the environment and overestimated how well officials would be able to squash outbreaks.

And it turns out Gaza wasn’t the only place where this issue was a problem.

The plan led to vaccine-linked polio outbreaks in 43 countries that paralyzed more than 3,300 children, the report concluded.

Even before the Gaza case was detected, officials reviewing the initiative to tinker with the vaccine concluded that “the worst-case scenario has materialized,” the report said.

The report has not yet been published, and some changes will likely be made before the final version is released next month, the WHO said.

Is there any wonder why most nations refused to sign the failed WHO pandemic treaty?

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