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SUMMARY:Polio\, Health and War in Gaza
DESCRIPTION:For almost a year now\, Israeli military forces have laid to waste the
 occupied Gaza Strip to an extent that is widely agreed to go
 disproportionately beyond a military response to the October 7 attacks by
 Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups. Hence\, already since late
 January 2024\, four months into the war\, Israel is being investigated
 before the International Courts.\nThe systematic destruction of civilian
 infrastructure – for water and sewage\, of apartment buildings and
 houses\, hundreds of schools and all universities in the Strip\, numerous
 hospitals\, health centres and ambulances etc. – along with withholding
 of aid and the repeated mass displacement of the overwhelming majority of
 Gaza’s exceptionally young population have created conditions of death\,
 despair and disease.\nThe re-emergence of the first polio case in 25 years
 in Gaza is only one but a stark indication to the disastrous health and
 hygiene situation in the coastal enclave. As the organized vaccination
 campaigns for hundred of thousands of children saw a limited humanitarian
 pause\, a much-needed permanent ceasefire has not been agreed.\nThe
 Palestinian Medical Relief Society has been providing health services\,
 including with support from medico international\, to the Palestinian
 population for decades\, both in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank\, where a
 significant\, alarming militarisation of the Israeli occupation has been
 unfolding in places like Tulkarem and Jenin for over a year with marked
 recent escalations.\nHosted by medico’s Health Coordinator Andreas Wulf\,
 Mustafa Barghouti will speak about the impact of the war on the Palestinian
 population\, the situation of the health system and the role of local and
 international actors in this war and the decades long
 conflict.\nIntroduction by Chris Whitman\, medico Office Director for
 Palestine &amp\;amp\; Israel\nThis event will be held in English.
 &amp\;nbsp\;\nParticipation\nvia Zoom:
 https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89978417347?pwd=SWyzwSJTltJeVZCXbc8pE0f5kt8tmg.1\
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