On Saturday, Palestine's Health Minister Maged Abu Ramadan said that Israeli troops block the arrival of poliovirus vaccines to the children of Gaza.
Abu Ramadan said in a press conference, aired on Cairo News today, "We call the International Community to provide the needed protection for the medical staff in the occupied lands," adding: "Vaccines are on its way to the Gaza Strip from the East of Asia."
Palestine's Gaza recorded its first polio case in 25 years, the Palestinian Health Ministry announced on Friday.
The announcement came after UN chief Antonio Guterres called for urgent pauses in in Gaza to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of Gazan children against major diseases.
The tests were made in Jordan, and they confirmed the diagnosis of an unvaccinated 10-month-old Gazan, the health ministry added.
According to the United Nations, Gaza didn't register a polio case for 25 years, although type 2 poliovirus was detected in samples collected from Gaza's wastewater in June.
The Palestinian health ministry highlighted: “Doctors suspected the presence of symptoms consistent with polio."
It added: “After conducting the necessary tests in the Jordanian capital, Amman, the infection was confirmed.”
The case was reported shortly after Guterres called for two seven-day pauses in Gaza to vaccinate more than 640,000 children.
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