Polio vaccines arrive in Gaza

The first batch of polio vaccines has arrived in the Gaza Strip, weeks after alarms were raised over the first confirmed case of the disease in the enclave in the past 25 years.

Last Friday, the WHO said that a 10-month-old baby had been paralysed with polio, raising fears of a wider outbreak given the lack of proper sanitation.

Over 640,000 Palestinian children need the vaccine, according to the UN.