At least 187,000 Gaza children vaccinated for polio so far, U.N. says
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United Nations officials on Wednesday hailed limited pauses in the fighting between Israel and Hamas to allow children's polio vaccinations as rare moments of hope in the nearly yearlong war in Gaza.
The U.N. World Health Organization says 187,000 children in Gaza have been vaccinated for polio, with an eventual goal of 640,000. WHO and its partners launched the campaign this week after Gaza recently reported its first polio case in 25 years — a 10-month-old boy — now paralyzed in a leg.
The boy's mother, Neveen Abu El Jidyan, told CBS News in an interview last week that she has been able to do very little for her son, Abdul Rahman, since he contracted polio.
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