صحيفة نبض الشعب الاسبوعيه رئيس التحرير جعفر الخابوري

Children in Gaza are not only facing killing, injury, terror, and suffering from the hell of anxiety, terror, and fear, due to the ongoing Israeli aggression and its intensive raids, but also many serious challenges, most notably, in addition to what was mentioned above, illness and psychological problems, which have robbed the children of Gaza of their childhood and innocence. In addition to skin diseases, respiratory infections, and diarrhea, which are common diseases among the children of Gaza, the biggest challenge now is polio, after the first case of the virus was recorded in the city of Deir al-Balah for a ten-month-old child due to not receiving any vaccination dose. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the presence of one infection may mean the presence of hundreds of other undetected cases, as the ministry also monitored three suspected cases in three governorates, one of which was positive. The continuation of the aggression on the Gaza Strip with unprecedented brutality has caused a huge health disaster in the Strip, due to the lack and unavailability of basic hygiene needs, the cutting off of sewage services, the accumulation of waste in the streets and around places of shelter for the displaced, and the lack of clean drinking water, which has created an environment conducive to the spread of diseases and the transmission of many epidemics, including Vaccine-derived poliovirus and hepatitis A, as stated by the Minister of Health Majed Abu Ramadan, who held a press conference in which he spoke about the alarming health situation in Gaza.
Following the Palestinian Health Ministry’s statement, warnings were raised by the World Health Organization and UNICEF about the risk of the disease spreading in light of the catastrophic humanitarian conditions experienced by the people of Gaza since the outbreak of the war on October 7. Despite the seriousness of the situation and the call by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, for an urgent humanitarian truce for a week to conduct a polio vaccination campaign in an attempt to contain the spread of the disease, Israel rejected the offer that Hamas agreed to..
Jaafar Abdul Karim Al-Khabouri
Al-Quds Newspaper