UNRWA head says polio campaign may be paused after IDF detained convoy

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1. UNRWA head seems to be unsure of WTF he is talking about.

Polio vaccination starts in north Gaza despite obstacles

GAZA/GENEVA (Reuters) -A campaign to vaccinate a final 200,000 children in north Gaza against polio began on Tuesday although health and aid officials said the operation was complicated by access restrictions, evacuation orders and shortages of fuel.

The campaign in north Gaza, the part of the territory hardest hit by Israel's 11-month military offensive against Hamas militants, follows the vaccination of more than 446,000 Palestinian children in central and south Gaza earlier this month. Medical staff had started administering vaccines in the north despite a dire need for fuel, among other challenges, said Dr. Moussa Abed of the primary care unit in Gaza's health ministry.

Vaccination centres are in areas that are militarily very active, difficult to reach and isolated if things go wrong, said Sam Rose, a deputy director of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA."There are some nerves, but we'll have to make it work," he told Reuters by text message

On Monday, Israel stopped a convoy that included vehicles and fuel for the vaccination campaign as well as a World Health Organization team trying to get to Gaza's Al Shifa hospital and the mission had to be aborted, the WHO's Tarik Jasarevic told reporters in a briefing.

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The convoy Israel stopped included vehicles and fuel for vaccination campaign. It was not exclusively made up of vehicles designated for the rollout of the vaccination campaign. And it didn't carry any vaccines.

And, polio vaccinations started in Northern Gaza as scheduled, apparently unaffected by the detention of the convoy.