Polio vaccine campaign for thousands of children in Gaza as virus threatens already dire humanitarian crisis - August 30, 2024
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Israel agrees to a series of daily humanitarian pauses for a major polio vaccination campaign in Gaza, as a resurgence of the highly contagious virus creates alarm. Israel continues its large-scale military operation in the West Bank. John Lyndon, Executive Director with the Alliance for Middle East Peace on the motivation and why now. Also, we hear from a Russian American journalist freed from jail by the Kremlin and look at the rising threats to those risking their lives to bring truth to light.
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