A polio vaccination clinic in Gaza City was targeted with sound bombs from an Israeli quadcopter, Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary reports.

“We know that when the Israelis fire sound bombs or even live ammunition or bullets — there are a lot of fragments that fall after these attacks,” Khoudary reports, adding that at least three children were injured in this attack.

According to Khoudary, the polio campaign restarted despite challenges faced by the World Health Organisation, Unicef and the Palestinian Ministry of Health. “They were denied access, previously unable to cross from the southern Gaza Strip to Gaza City,” she says.

“But elsewhere in Gaza’s north, thousands of children will not get the polio vaccine because they are unreachable. Israeli forces are not letting Unicef, the World Health Organisation, and the Palestinian Ministry of Health reach those areas,” she adds.

Khoudary says that there is a siege in that area. “We’re talking about more than three weeks now of no food, no water, no medicine, no aid.”

Editorial

Updated 03 Aug, 2026

Farewell to arms?

PALESTINIAN resistance group Hamas recently made a major concession by agreeing to give up its weapons. It should be...
03 Aug, 2026

Unplanned future

A PROJECTION that Pakistan’s population could reach 400m by 2040 should not be treated as another dramatic number...
03 Aug, 2026

No more torture

EVEN the best laws on the books are worth little unless the state shows the willingness to enforce them. This is...
Updated 02 Aug, 2026

Urban flooding

THE warning from the disaster management and weather authorities that a new monsoon spell could trigger urban...
02 Aug, 2026

Fatal workplaces

THE methane explosion near Quetta that killed 34 coal miners is the latest entry in Pakistan’s long register of...
02 Aug, 2026

Dual standards

IT appears that the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party has fallen foul of the Election Commission of Pakistan. A...