The Israel-Hamas War|The Victims

WHO assesses: Vaccination against polio has been successful

Vaccination against polio in Gaza has reached 90 percent of children under the age of ten in its first phase, according to the World Health Organization WHO, according to AFP. This means that the goal has been achieved.

Almost 530,000 children have received the first of two doses. For the campaign to be fully successful, the children must also receive a second dose in a few weeks.

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Second school year without school for Gaza's 625,000 children

625,000 school children in Gaza have already missed almost a year of education. Now a new semester would have started, something that seems far away.

The Qudeh family's children instead collect rubble from destroyed buildings. The material must be sold and used for the manufacture of graves.

- In all other countries, children our age are allowed to study and learn, but not us, says 14-year-old Ezz el-Din Qudeh to AP.

Unicef ​​warns that younger children are hampered cognitively, socially and emotionally by not going to school. Older people risk ending up in work or early marriage.

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Six Unrwa employees killed in attack on school

Six employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) have been killed in an Israeli attack on a UN school where Palestinian families sought refuge. This is reported by AP.

No other single attack has previously killed as many Unrwa staff.

“This school has met five times since the war began. It is home to around 12,000 people on the run, mainly women and children," writes Unrwa in a statement.

In total, at least 14 people, including two children and a woman, were killed in the attack, according to hospital reports.

Israel's military says Hamas planned attacks from inside the school. AP writes that this information cannot be independently verified.

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Location on the West Bank
Review: 26-year-old shot when protests died down

The Israeli military claims that the American Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was accidentally shot dead in connection with a violent riot in the occupied West Bank. A Washington Post review disputes that version.

The newspaper has spoken to 13 eyewitnesses and reviewed over 50 films and photos from the scene. According to them, the shot that hit the 26-year-old activist over the weekend was fired 20 minutes after the protesters began to move from the scene. They are also said to have been almost 200 meters away from the military. The IDF has declined to answer why it fired on the protesters after the clashes subsided, citing the ongoing preliminary investigation.

On Wednesday evening, hundreds of friends and acquaintances of the 26-year-old gathered on a beach in her hometown of Seattle to mourn together, AP writes.

- I can't imagine how she felt in her last moments when she lay alone under the olive trees. What was she thinking? And did she know we were all going to show up here tonight, Eygi's friend Kelsie Nabass said.