While the World Health Organization intends to deploy 2,700 caregivers in all municipalities of the Gaza Strip, a senior official in the international organization said that the Israeli army agreed to 3 different humanitarian truces in the Gaza Strip in 3 areas, each for 3 days.

The senior official at the World Health Organization, who declined to reveal his identity, said: “We received initial pledges for specific humanitarian aid in specific areas, during the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza.”

The European Union called on Thursday for an “immediate” humanitarian truce to allow all children in the Gaza Strip to be vaccinated against polio.

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said, "It is worrying that polio was discovered and the first confirmed case was recorded."

He pointed out that the spread of the epidemic must be avoided among a population “weakened by ten months of fighting, displacement, malnutrition, lack of basic health services, and miserable health conditions.”

The population of Gaza is approximately 2.4 million people, most of them displaced and half of them children, according to the United Nations, and they have become crowded into increasingly narrow areas.

For months, the United Nations and relief organizations have expressed concern about the health situation in the Gaza Strip, where stagnant water, mountains of rubble, garbage, exhausting summer heat, and mixing constitute fertile ground for the spread of epidemics.

To try to avoid the danger looming under tents or in buildings that still stand but are often deprived of water and electricity, the World Health Organization intends to deploy 2,700 caregivers in all municipalities of the Gaza Strip.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) will maintain the refrigeration of the doses scheduled to vaccinate more than 640,000 children under the age of ten, according to its spokesman Jonathan Krekes.

Concern increased last week after the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health announced that it had detected the first case of polio in a ten-month-old child.

This comes after polio disappeared from the Gaza Strip 25 years ago, according to the United Nations.

In the Gaza Strip, evacuation orders have displaced nearly 2.3 million of the Strip's residents multiple times, causing devastating hunger and disease.

Amnesty International said that the intensification of the Israeli operation in the West Bank would likely result in an increase in forced displacement, the destruction of vital infrastructure and “collective punishment” measures that were the main pillars of what it called the “apartheid regime” in Israel.

Israel denies practicing any kind of collective punishment or apartheid in the West Bank, saying that it only wants to defeat Palestinian militants who threaten its security.

The latest round of Israeli-Palestinian violence began on October 7 after Hamas gunmen stormed southern Israel from Gaza, while Palestinian health officials said that Israel's campaign in Gaza since then has killed more than 40,500 people and destroyed tracts of land. Wide range of the sector.