Israel has agreed to limited daily pauses in fighting in the Gaza Strip from Sunday to allow for hundreds of thousands of children to be vaccinated against polio, the United Nations said on Thursday. Fighting is to cease in three areas of the Palestinian territory from morning to afternoon on three consecutive days each, according to Rip Peeperkorn, a representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO), citing a commitment made by the Israeli authority responsible for Palestinian affairs, COGAT. “So it has been agreed that the campaign will be delivered (…) in a phased approach over three …