The drive comes after the first confirmed case of the disease in 25 years was discovered in Gaza.
The first full day of a campaign to vaccinate 640,000 children against polio in Gaza has been successful, the UN says.
Around 1.3 million doses of the vaccine were recently brought in through the Kerem Shalom checkpoint by Unicef. The agency has had to keep them in cold storage in its warehouse at the correct temperature to maintain their potency. Another shipment of 400,000 doses is set to be delivered to Gaza soon.
“This is a huge endeavour,” Mr Crickx adds. “Especially in a place like the Gaza Strip where we know that, for example, roads have been damaged, that access is problematic, that security incidents take place on a daily basis.” A video shot a few months ago shows that he was crawling early. But now as he turns one, his mother Niveen - who lives in a crowded tent camp in central Gaza - worries that he will never be able to walk.
During the war that followed, the Abu Judyan family from the very north of Gaza, have moved five times - first to Gaza City, then to different locations in the centre, to Rafah in the far south and back to Deir al-Balah.“I feel a lot of guilt that he didn’t get the vaccination. But I couldn’t give it to him because of our circumstances,” Niveen says as she rocks her baby in a car seat. She desperately hopes that her son can be taken outside Gaza for treatment.
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