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STORY: UNICEF / GAZA POLIO VACCINATION
TRT: 03:46
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 22 FEBRUARY 2025, GAZA STRIP
22 FEBRUARY 2025, ALZAWAIDA, GAZA STRIP
1. Various shots, families arriving with their children to clinic and receiving their oral polio vaccine, Asdeqaa clinic
22 FEBRUARY 2025, NUSSAIRAT, GAZA STRIP
2. Various shots, children receiving vaccinations, Nussairat public clinic
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Shatha, 7 years old:
“I came today to receive the vaccine for the third time because it is important for my health.”
22 FEBRUARY 2025, ALZAWAIDA, GAZA STRIP
4. Various shots, families arriving with their children receiving vaccinations, Zawayda clinic
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nabila, mother of two:
“We came today for her to receive the third dose of the vaccine because it is essential for her health and protection against diseases that have spread during the war. Thank you, UNICEF, for your care and dedication to children. This vaccine is very important as the war has led to the widespread spread of diseases.”
22 FEBRUARY 2025, NORTH OF GAZA, GAZA STRIP
6. Various shots, social mobilizers raising awareness among community around 3rd phase of Polio vaccination campaign
22 FEBRUARY 2025, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP
7. Various shots, children receiving vaccination, PRCS
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Raafat Salem Al-Salameh, father:
“Today, we came here to receive the polio vaccine. Thanks to God, today we received it exceptionally and now feel somewhat reassured about the risk of epidemics. We thank UNICEF for providing this vaccination, and their efforts to deliver this vaccine.”
9. Various shots, children receiving vaccination, Japan clinic
10. Various shots, children receiving vaccination, Jourt Allout clinic
11. Various shots, children receiving vaccination, Hamad Health Center
12. Various shots, social mobilizers raising awareness among community around 3rd phase of Polio vaccination campaign
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aya Miqdad, Emergency Polio Vaccination Team:
“We are active in displacement camps and working in the streets of Deir Al-Balah, particularly between Al-Baraka Street and Al-Hakar Street. We have visited tents, homes, and gathering places, including bakeries, to inform people about the importance of this vaccination for children. We emphasized that it is essential, safe, and necessary.”
The emergency polio outbreak response in the Gaza Strip is continuing, with a mass vaccination campaign scheduled from 22 to 26 February 2025.
The novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) will be administered to over 591,000 children under 10 years of age to protect them from polio.
This campaign follows the recent detection of poliovirus in wastewater samples in Gaza, signaling ongoing circulation in the environment putting children at risk.
Two previous vaccination rounds in the Gaza Strip were successfully conducted in September and October 2024, reaching over 95 percent of the target.
As poliovirus is found to remain in the environment, additional vaccination efforts are needed to reach every child and strengthen population immunity.
The presence of the virus still poses a risk to children with low or no immunity, in Gaza and throughout the region.
The upcoming vaccination campaign aims to reach all children under 10 years of age, including those previously missed, to close immunity gaps and end the outbreak.
The use of the oral polio vaccine will help end this outbreak by preventing the spread of the virus.
An additional polio vaccination round is planned to be implemented in April.
The campaign is led by the Palestinian Ministry of Health and implemented with support from the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and other partners.
