By Kit Knightly

Two weeks ago, the first case of polio was detected in Gaza for 25 years, leaving a ten month-old child partially paralyzed and forcing decisive action from the World Health Organization.

Doctors were dispatched to Gaza with over a million doses of polio vaccine, with the aim of vaccinating 640,000 children in record time.

Israel and Hamas even agreed to quote-unquote “humanitarian” pauses in the bombing for a few hours every day to get the vaccinations done.

The good news – according to the WHO – is that all these efforts have been successful so far, and they are actually vaccinating more children than they planned too.

…And the world breathed a sign of relief.

Thankfully the starving, homeless children of Gaza won’t get polio as they crouch under the rubble of their homes praying the next batch of cluster bombs misses them.

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