More than 150,000 children in Gaza received the required second dose of oral polio vaccine in the first two days of the campaign’s second round, the WHO chief said, AFP reports.

Despite continuing Israeli military operations in some areas of the Palestinian territory, the second round of a polio vaccination campaign, aiming to reach more than 590,000 children under the age of 10, began on Monday.

“The total number of children who received a second dose of polio vaccine in central Gaza after two days of vaccination is 156,943,” the World Health Organization’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X.

“The vaccination continues today. At the same time, 128,121 children received vitamin A supplements.

“We call for the humanitarian pauses to continue to be respected. We call for a ceasefire and peace,” he said.