The anti-polio campaign officially began on Sunday, September 1, in the central Gaza Strip. “Vaccinations started at 9am (local time). We opened the centres and we are receiving children aged from one day to ten years old, calmly so far”said Dr. Yasser Sha’ban, medical director of al-Awda Hospital. The campaign, announced by Israel and Hamas, aims to vaccinate more than 640,000 children under the age of 10 in the besieged Palestinian territory, where polio has re-emerged. On Thursday, the World Health Organization announced that Israel had agreed to a series of “humanitarian breaks” to carry it out. Follow our live feed.
An armed attack in the southern West Bank. Two men and a woman were killed on Sunday in a “armed attack” in the south of the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian territory where the Israeli army is carrying out a vast operation “anti-terrorist”Israeli rescue services reported. Already on the night of Friday to Saturday, two attacks carried out by Palestinians had targeted Jewish settlements in the same region.
Bodies of six hostages recovered and identified. The Israeli army announced on Sunday that it had identified the bodies of six hostages brought back to Israel from Gaza. Five of them – aged 23 to 32 – had been abducted from the Nova techno music festival by Hamas commandos during the deadly attack on October 7.
Ship attacked off Yemen. Houthi rebels said Saturday they had carried out an attack on a merchant ship off the coast of Yemen. They have been carrying out attacks on ships they believe to be linked to Israel since November, saying they were acting in solidarity with the Palestinians amid the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.