The territory’s Ministry of Health explained that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the World Health Organization (WHO), among others, will also participate.

For its part, UNRWA specified that the health offensive will last 10 days and will be implemented in three phases, each separated by one month.

It noted that the objective is to improve herd immunity after two years of Israeli aggression, which affected life in the territory and prevented the vaccination of hundreds of thousands of children.

The plan is to complete the national immunization program because vaccination represents “the first and last line of defense against epidemics and diseases,” he emphasized.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus confirmed that the organization will begin providing vaccines, nutritional checkups, treatment, and growth monitoring to some 44,000 infants in Gaza.

Gaza authorities, NGOs, governments, and the UN have repeatedly warned of the severe humanitarian crisis the territory is suffering as a consequence of the Israeli aggression, which began in October 2013.

According to these reports, the destruction of he networks of drinking water and sewage, coupled with attacks on healthcare and the blockade of medicine and food supplies, have caused a humanitarian crisis in the territory, as well as outbreaks of epidemics and numerous diseases.

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