The Israeli military has either restricted, destroyed or militarily cut off aid to the Gaza strip. The territory's healthcare system has been devastated, with only about a third of its hospitals and 40 percent of primary healthcare facilities currently operational.
Now, Israel is maniacally agreeing to pause the war in Gaza so that their forces can deliver tens of thousands of live polio vaccines to the children of Gaza. These inoculations inevitably spread vaccine-derived polio strains that will lead to "provocation poliomyelitis" – further crippling and depopulating the region.
The United Nations has called for a comprehensive inoculation campaign following the confirmation of the first polio case in Gaza since the mid-1990s. In response to the crisis, the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has indicated that Washington is working with Israeli officials to finalize a coordinated vaccination plan, with implementation expected in the coming weeks.
Joining forces with Israel’s depopulation agenda, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF have emphasized the urgency for inoculating the children of Gaza, calling for a minimum seven-day ceasefire to facilitate the vaccination of approximately 640,000 children across the Strip. With the support of 2,700 workers, the vaccination campaign aims to reach every municipality in the region.
The vaccine shipment is sufficient to inoculate approximately 1,255,000 individuals, which represents just over half of Gaza’s population. This initiative is part of a broader effort coordinated by Israel’s civilian coordination agency, COGAT, and international health organizations. COGAT has announced that international and local medical teams will oversee the distribution of the vaccines over the coming days. The plan includes conducting vaccinations at various locations within Gaza during routine humanitarian pauses. These pauses are intended to allow civilians to access remaining dilapidated medical centers where they can receive the vaccine.
These junk polio vaccines, which are now proven to spread vaccine-derived polio strains, will continue to spread polio in Gaza and will do nothing to improve living conditions, water quality or sanitation, nor restore health, vitality and immunity to the children who are now suffering from malnutrition and severely unsanitary conditions.
The conditions for outbreaks and serious disease are much higher in childhood populations that do not have access to clean water, sanitation, nutrition and proper medical care. By intentionally spreading vaccine-derived polio strains in Gaza, the United Nations, the Israeli forces and UNICEF are basically taking a torch to a drought-stricken forest, begging for wildfires to take hold (exacerbating disease outbreaks in children).
Whether global health authorities have good intentions or not, the polio vaccine will cause further damage to the children of Gaza. Studies show that skeletal muscle injury can make individuals more susceptible to neurological complications from poliovirus infections, a phenomenon known as “provocation poliomyelitis.” This condition often results from unnecessary injections in children living in areas where poliovirus is common, leading to cases of childhood paralysis. A study from 1998 suggests that intramuscular injections may also heighten the risk of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis among those receiving live attenuated poliovirus vaccines. The study found the precise pathogenic mechanism connecting intramuscular injections with provocation poliomyelitis. This skeletal muscle injury triggers retrograde axonal transport of the poliovirus, which aids in the virus's invasion of the central nervous system and exacerbates spinal cord damage.
The Israeli military created the conditions for disease to spread in the first place, creating filthy and unsanitary conditions that cause the spread of diseases, while burdening families with survival-mode levels of stress and fatigue that precede disease. The lack of basic food and nutrition has rendered the children immunocompromised, allowing for multiple infections to take hold.
In a depraved show of fake compassion, the Israeli military is bringing in mass inoculation campaigns that will only make the situation worse, while ignoring the very things these children need in order to survive the hellish conditions that has been fostered on them.
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