UNRWA: ‘Horrific’ conditions affecting 15,000 displaced people in school in central Gaza

GAZA: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said today that its teams visited a school in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on the second day of the polio vaccination campaign, which is suffering from horrific conditions affecting 15,000 displaced people sheltering inside and in need of a ceasefire. On the second day of the polio vaccination campaign in central Gaza, UN mobile teams went from tent to tent marking kids' thumbs with ink after they received their doses, UNRWA spokesperson Louise Wateridge said in a video published by the agency on its account on the X platform. She explained that "one of the UNRWA schools in Deir al-Balah is suffering from horrific conditions for the 15,000 displaced people taking shelter inside it," stressing that "the children of the Gaza Strip need a ceasefire more than anything else." Earlier on Monday, UNRWA said its teams and partners reached about 87,000 children in central Gaza on Sunday; the first day of the polio vaccination campaign. Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA