The health ministry in Gaza announced that nearly 159,000 children received polio vaccination in the central area of the Gaza Strip, Anadolu reports.

“Medical teams were able to vaccinate 158,992 children within two days of the start of the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza,” the Health Ministry said in a statement.

It added that there was a high turnout by the citizens on the second day of the campaign in Gaza’s central area.

According to medical teams supervising the vaccination campaign at centers in Deir al-Balah, signs of fatigue and malnutrition were observed in hundreds of children who received vaccinations due to the difficult conditions they are living through amid the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip for nearly 11 months.