Conditions worsened amid rising death tolls and destruction in Gaza and Lebanon, but UN agencies reported some good news: the final phase of a Gazan polio vaccine campaign reached nearly 90 per cent of children in the north, and Palestinian and Lebanese youngsters are returning to learning in makeshift classrooms. Join us Wednesday for live updates, including the General Assembly's meeting on UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees, which new Israeli laws pledge to ban in 90 days. UN News app users can follow here.
"The Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza has become a besieged war zone. Its neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), the last remaining in the north, has reportedly been damaged in heavy attacks in recent days," said the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) Middle East and North Africa regional director Adele Khodr in a statement just released.
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