UN officials repeat calls for peace as Gaza polio vaccinations gets underway

Hundreds of Gazan families have been queueing to await the turn of their child to receive a polio vaccination since early Sunday morning, in a campaign designed to stop the resurgence of a virus whose re-emergence has been blamed on insanitary conditions.

Speaking to international media on Sunday, Sam Rose, a spokesperson for

, the UN agency for Palestine refugees, said that over 200 teams are administering the vaccine in 25 locations in…