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Gaza parents rush to vaccinate kids against polio despite war fears

A health worker administers the Polio vaccine to a Palestinian child in Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip on September 1, 2024. [AFP]

Ghadir Hajji rushed to a clinic on Sunday in hopes her five children would be among the first to get vaccinated against polio, which has re-emerged in war-ravaged Gaza.

"They absolutely have to be vaccinated," she told AFP as the family waited in line for a vaccine drive announced after health officials reported last month the first case of polio in the besieged territory in a quarter of a century.

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