New York - Saba:
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced that 100,000 children in the Gaza Strip have enrolled in schools after the start of the new school year, on February 23, and 165 public schools have reopened across the Strip.
In its latest update on Thursday, the office reported that the polio vaccination campaign that began a few days ago ended on Wednesday, reaching more than 600,000 children under the age of ten.
The office indicated that the World Health Organization provided supplies to three hospitals and five health partners that will serve 250,000 people across the Gaza Strip.
At the same time, the organization supported the expansion of the triage and emergency departments at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, by providing tents and 20 additional beds.
This week, UNICEF delivered essential health kits for children, medicines for children and supplies for newborns to more than 20,000 people at Al Awda Hospital, located in northern Gaza. In the West Bank, OCHA confirmed that Israeli forces’ operations continue in Jenin, Tulkarm and Tubas, resulting in further casualties, displacement and disruption of access to health care, water, electricity and other basic services.