The Gaza Health Ministry says Israeli forces refuse to co-ordinate to allow access to medical teams of the polio vaccination campaign to the east of Salah Al Din, also known as the Philadelphi corridor, in southern Gaza. A large number of children requiring the vaccine are needed in the area. The first day of the UN-led campaign kicked off in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday.

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