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In cooperation with the Palestinian Ministry of Health UNICEF and Government of Japan Sign Agreement
JERUSALEM, 11 March 2025, – Yesterday, in the Ministry of Health in Ramallah and in the presence of his Excellency Dr Maged Abu Ramadan, UNICEF and the Government of Japan signed a US$ 3.8 million agreement in cooperation with Ministry of Health to launch the project “Improving Access to Health and Nutrition Servi...
Photo essay
Kamal Adwan Hospital: From Hope to Ruin and Back Again
For years, the Kamal Adwan Hospital has been the most important hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip. Its Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit housed over twenty beds and incubators. Kamal Adwan became a synonym of hope for thousands, where newborns took their first breaths, doctors saved countless lives,...
Statement
Humanitarian access improves quality of polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip
28 February 2025, Jerusalem/Amman/Geneva –, A five-day mass polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip concluded on Wednesday, reaching nearly 603 000 children under 10 years of age with novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) following comprehensive, simultaneous access to all five governorates during the ongoing ceasefire. The campaign was conducted as part of emergency efforts to end…
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Mass polio vaccination campaign to continue in the Gaza Strip
19 February 2025, Jerusalem/Amman/Geneva –, The emergency polio outbreak response in the Gaza Strip is continuing, with a mass vaccination campaign scheduled from 22 to 26 February 2025. The novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) will be administered to over 591,000 children under 10 years of age to protect them...
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King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre supports the sanitation, hygiene and health of families and children in Gaza
RIYADH – 24 November 2024, . Today, The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) signed a new agreement to support the provision of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) project and essential health care project for the children and families in the G...
Photo essay
Without immediate food and aid, the lives of Gaza’s children hang in the balance
Saad is ten months old. He was born when his mother had already fled their home—a bright spot in the early months of the war. “I was filled with joy and anticipation to meet him. He was like the moon,” says Najah, holding out an earlier photo of her baby. But when Saad turned seven months, his features began to ch...
Photo essay
Gaza’s Children Protected from Poliovirus Outbreak After Challenging Vaccine Campaign
More than half a million children in the Gaza Strip have received a second dose of the polio vaccine, completing the required vaccination regime and protecting 94 per cent of children under age ten from the life-threatening disease. The successful completion of two rounds of vaccination despite bombardments, displ...
Photo essay
Rapidly Deployed and Reliable, UNICEF’s Cash Transfers are a Lifeline for Gaza Families
Just six days after the first bombings pounded the Gaza Strip one year ago, UNICEF was able to distribute emergency cash assistance to tens of thousands of families who were suddenly without any income. That cash has been a lifeline for Gaza residents struggling to obtain the basics for life. "I used the money to ...
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Brave nameless boy
In a quiet corner of the Sahaba Medical Centre in Gaza, Hala lay in her hospital bed, exhausted yet vigilant. Her mind was a storm of worry and fear, unable to find rest as her thoughts circled around her tiny son, born far too soon, just 26 weeks into her pregnancy. At only one kilogram at birth, the little boy is extremely fragile, needing…
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Dying in waiting: Gaza’s children face lethal delays in medical evacuation
GENEVA, 25 October 2024 - ", Children are being medically evacuated from Gaza at a rate of fewer than one child per day. If this lethally slow pace continues, it would take more than seven years to evacuate the 2,500 children needing urgent medical care. "As a result, children in Gaza are dying – not just from the bombs, bullets and shells that strike them – but because,…
Statement
Intense bombardments, mass displacements and lack of access in northern Gaza force the postponement of polio vaccination campaign
EAST JERUSALEM/AMMAN/GENEVA, 23 October 2024-, Due to the escalating violence, intense bombardment, mass displacement orders, and lack of assured humanitarian pauses across most of northern Gaza, the Polio Technical Committee for Gaza, including the Palestinian Ministry of Health, World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Relief and Works…
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Humanitarian pauses vital for critical polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip
JERUSALEM/CAIRO/AMMAN, 16 August 2024 –, Two rounds of a polio vaccination campaign are expected to be launched at the end of August and September 2024 across the Gaza Strip to prevent the spread of circulating variant type 2 poliovirus (cVDPV2). WHO and UNICEF request all parties to the conflict to implement h...