Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisation in the US, has called on the Biden administration to force Israel to end the bombardment in Gaza to allow a polio vaccination campaign to be conducted, Al Jazeera reports.

The disease has appeared due to Israel’s systematic destruction of the civilian and medical infrastructure in Gaza, CAIR said in a statement.

“President Biden’s enabling of the systematic destruction of almost all civilian infrastructure in Gaza has resulted in the reappearance of a disease that could be devastating to Palestinian children,” the group’s communications director Ibrahim Hooper said.