humanitarian pauses on Israel's brutal war on Gaza will allow hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children to receive critical polio vaccines following an agreement between Israel and the UN World Health Organization to carry out a two round vaccination campaign the who aims to vaccinate 640,000 children under the age of 10 to stop an outbreak of the highly infectious virus in The besieged Enclave after a baby contracted the first confirmed case of polio in 25 years in Gaza and was paralyzed stting on September 1 the brief pauses will last 3 days across all areas of the war ravaged territory beginning with Central Gaza and will involve more than 2,100 health workers at hundreds of sites the humanitarian pauses are not considered a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas which mediators from the US Egypt and Qatar have long been seeking