The Latest Breaking News from Rik Peeperkorn

Fatal infections more likely due to malnutrition, injuries and lack of medical facilities under Israel’s blockade

Aid groups warn of ‘mass starvation’ in Gaza amid blockade, while Israeli attacks kill dozens of others across enclave.

North Gaza has three hospitals, all of which have been taken out of service by Israel’s offensive.

UN body says only 78 of 12,000 patients requiring recent evacuation have been allowed to leave by Israeli military

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday urged Israel to ensure the necessary conditions to finish the job of vaccinating Gaza's children against polio, after reaching more than 150,000 with the required second dose.

WHO says it surpasses its polio vaccination targets in first days of campaign to immunise more than 640,000 children.

The U.N. is about to launch an ambitious campaign to vaccinate 640,000 children in Gaza against polio, a disease that doctors fear has spread in the territory due to the massive humanitarian catastrophe unleashed by Israel's military offensive there

Israel has agreed to a series of three-day "humanitarian pauses" in Gaza to allow health officials to administer polio vaccinations to children in the territory, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

Rik Peeperkorn, the World Health Organization's senior official for the Palestinian territories, said on Thursday that Israel had agreed to limited pauses in the fighting in Gaza to allow vaccinations against polio. Hamas said it is “ready to cooperate with international organisations to secure the campaign", according to a statement…