Four children injured in Israeli strike on polio vaccine clinic in Gaza

Israel has denied attacking a clinic in where youngsters were being given jabs.

Four children were wounded in the drone strike on the facility in the Sheikh Radwan area of Gaza City on Saturday. It came minutes after a delegation had left the clinic, where Unicef and the World Health Organisation were giving the jabs.

The UN said the attack came during an agreed humanitarian pause, and Unicef called it an example of the indiscriminate targeting of civilians.

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In a separate incident in Jabalia, Unicef executive director Catherine Russell said a car driven by a staff member “came under fire by what we believe to be a quadcopter”. The driver was left “deeply shaken”.

A scaled-down campaign to administer a second dose of the polio vaccine began yesterday in northern Gaza. More than 43,000 people have been killed in Gaza by ’s attacks following the October 7 raids, when Hamas killed 1,200 in Israel.

Israel has recently been targeting the city of Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, to “prevent Hamas regrouping”. Its military also revealed it carried out a raid into Syria, seizing a Syrian citizen who was “allegedly spying for Iran”. It is the first time in this conflict that Israel has announced sending troops into Syria.

Lebanon said yesterday an air strike had killed three people near Sidon.

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