*🇵🇸Palestinian Ministry of Health - Gaza 🇵🇸*

*Press Statement*

*🛑 The Israeli occupation's prevention of the entry of polio vaccines into the Gaza Strip poses a time bomb that threatens to spread the epidemic*

*👈🏻Preventing the entry of vaccines is an indirect targeting of children in the Gaza Strip*

*👈🏻602,000 children are at risk of permanent paralysis and chronic disabilities unless the necessary vaccines are made available to them*

*👈🏻Preventing the entry of vaccines means the collapse of the efforts made over the past seven months, which means serious and catastrophic repercussions will be added to the targeted and exhausted health system, in addition to doubling the social and economic repercussions*

*👈🏻The Ministry of Health calls on the relevant authorities to pressure the occupation to allow the entry of vaccines and provide safe corridors to ensure access to children in various areas of the Gaza Strip*

*Ministry of Health*
*April 6, 2025*