Under US pressure, Israel agrees to humanitarian truce for polio vaccination Tel Aviv - Ma'an - Israel agreed this evening to a humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip for the purpose of the polio vaccination campaign without a ceasefire. Channel 13 reported that Netanyahu's office said, "This is not a truce, but merely the allocation of certain places in the Strip. The matter was also presented to the cabinet and received the ministers' support." According to the Israeli position and the security establishment, this step comes as a precautionary measure. Source: Maan News Agency
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