UN officials on Friday voiced concerns that Israeli displacement orders in northern Gaza might affect its polio vaccination campaign set to start next week. “I am of course, concerned about the developments in the north, and specifically with these evacuation orders,” Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative for the occupied Palestinian territory, told reporters in Geneva.

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