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Humanitarian pauses in the war in the Gaza Strip have been agreed to allow a second round of polio vaccinations targeting 590,000 children under the age of 10 to start on 14 October, the head of the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF said on Thursday. “Area-specific humanitarian pauses have been agreed. It is critical that these pauses are respected by all parties. Without them, it is impossible to vaccinate the children,” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said in a statement. The first round of the polio vaccination campaign, which began on 1 September, reached its target of 90% of child…

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