Four people were killed, including women and children sheltering in tents around the hospital, Wafa said on Thursday.
Video taken by Reuters news agency and published Thursday showed tents erected by displaced Gazans lying in ruins, their wooden beams flattened, and people’s belongings strewed in the hospital’s courtyard.
“We sought refuge in a safe place, in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Hospital, displaced and sleeping peacefully, we found nothing but the airstrikes hitting us,” one woman, Iqbal Al-Zeidi, told Reuters.
In the campaign’s first phase, the W.H.O.
vaccinated more than 187,000 children over three days.
The second phase was expected to take place in southern Gaza over the next three days, before a third and final phase in northern Gaza.
The effort aims to vaccinate a total of about 640,000 children under 10 against the disease, after the first polio case in Gaza in 25 years was recorded in a nearly 1-year-old boy last month.
The W.H.O., an agency of the United Nations, said it had exceeded its target for the first phase by 30,000 children, as more than 2,180 workers fanned out across hospitals, temporary schools and camps for displaced people, visiting tents and areas destroyed by nearly 11 months of fighting.
Wafa reported on Thursday that four people had died, including women and children who were taking refuge in tents near the hospital. Video captured by the Reuters news agency and released on Thursday showed the hospital’s courtyard littered with people’s belongings, tents set up by displaced Gazans lying in ruins with their wooden beams flattened.
“We looked for safety in the Al-Aqsa Hospital courtyard, where we were relocated and able to sleep comfortably, but all we could see was the impact of the airstrikes,” a woman named Iqbal Al-Zeidi told Reuters.
In the initial stage of the campaign, the W. Ha. A. O. Over three days, over 187,000 children received vaccinations. Before the third and final phase, which was supposed to occur in northern Gaza, the second phase was supposed to occur in southern Gaza over the course of the following three days. With the discovery of the first polio case in Gaza in 25 years—a nearly 1-year-old boy—last month, an attempt is underway to vaccinate approximately 640,000 children under the age of ten against the illness.
The Word. G. A. O. , a UN agency, announced that it had reached its goal of serving 30,000 extra children in the first phase of operations. Over 2,180 workers visited tents and areas that had been destroyed by fighting that lasted for nearly 11 months, visiting hospitals, makeshift schools, and camps for the displaced.
