Participants in 71st session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean (RC71) takes place in Qatar from October 14-17, will receive an update on the health and humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territory.

In the Gaza Strip, an entire population has been cut off from sustained aid, and polio has resurfaced after 25 years.

In September, Ministry of Health with WHO and partners was able to vaccinate around 560,000 children under ten years during the first round of a vaccination campaign to stop the polio outbreak and prevent its international spread.

Civilian spaces and health care have come under sustained attack and the threat of disease outbreaks grow daily.

Al Jazeera.