It’s rare to see buildings without damage or total destruction anymore. Any building fully intact stands out. Hundreds of thousands of homes & lives destroyed. Stories of children, mothers, fathers, even entire families still buried underneath rubble. Cities are now graveyards.

"Nowhere in the Gaza Strip is safe.[...] It does feel like people are waiting for death." Louise Wateridge explains that, with ongoing military operations & continuous evacuation orders, people are "never more than a few blocks away from the front line now." france24.com/en/live-news/2…

"Today has been another day of horror in the #GazaStrip." Louise Wateridge tells BBC News (UK) that #Gaza is a 'living hell' where children are killed every day. With relentless bombings and nowhere safe to go, families don't know what to do and are constantly in fear for their lives.

In #Gaza, it took three days of asking for access to reach a family trapped under their bombed home in Hamad City, Khan Younis. The only thing emergency crews can do now is recover their remains. Another tragedy which could have been averted. #AccessDenied

"All that is left for us is the sea" Weeks of repeated displacement orders across south & middle #Gaza The situation is catastrophic. Day in, day out, thousands of families are forced from place to place, most on foot with few belongings. All while surrounded by tanks & bombs.

"The situation on the ground is nothing but catastrophic. [...] families are being forced from place to place, all while surrounded by tanks, bombs & strikes" Louise Wateridge tells RTÉ that the military action in #Gaza is relentless & people are terrified rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…

"The space that people have been confined to is so minimal. There are tanks in areas that used to be designated as safe areas." Louise Wateridge explains that, while people in #Gaza keep fleeing carrying what they can & mostly moving by foot, there is nowhere safe in the #GazaStrip

With UNICEF, World Health Organization (WHO), and partners, we are working to start a large-scale vaccination campaign against polio as soon as possible in #Gaza. For this to happen, we need a humanitarian pause. We cannot vaccinate children under a sky full of bombs and strikes. We need humanity.

🚨News alert🚨 WFP temporarily suspend staff movement across #Gaza following a security incident that targeted WFP vehicle. Read on 👇🏽 wfp.org/news/wfp-tempo…

"We cannot vaccinate children who are fleeing for their lives" Louise Wateridge tells BBC Radio 4 Today that any military operations during the upcoming #polio vaccination campaign in #Gaza will impact United Nations & partners ability to issue vaccinations to children. Repercussions will not just

"Children have suffered the most during the last 10 months of this war" Louise Wateridge tells BBC News (UK) that the #polio vaccination campaign is "going to be one of the most complex vaccination campaigns we've ever seen." United Nations and partners are ready, but "humanitarian pauses are

Dedicated health teams are mobilising this morning to "do everything they can to reach as many children as possible and get that 90% vaccination rate" Louise Wateridge to BBC News (UK) The vaccination campaign in the middle area #Gaza starts today for 156,000 children. Next will be

Today seeing thousands of children queue for #polio vaccinations in Deir Al Balah #Gaza After months of relentless strikes, these humanitarian pauses are the first respite for children in this area. Families need a ceasefire to end the senseless cycle of destruction & suffering

"We can put a band-aid on these things but we cannot treat the problem because the conditions are the same" Louise Wateridge says to CNN that we need a #CeasefireNow to curb the spread of diseases like #polio. People in #Gaza need to live in a humane environment.

"This is one of our biggest challenges" Louise Wateridge to BBC News (UK) this morning as fighting breaks out live during what was supposed to be a #polio humanitarian pause. "We cannot vaccinate children who are fearing for their lives,” who have to flee for safety. #CeasefireNow

On the second day of #polio vaccinations in #Gaza middle area, UNRWA teams visited children tent to tent & classroom to classroom. This UNRWA school in Deir Al Balah has appalling conditions for the 15,000 displaced people sheltering inside. What they need most is a #Ceasefire

Day 3 of #polio vaccination here in middle #Gaza Around this health facility, there’s a moat of sewage. Families sleeping on the ground in tents nearby Trying to vaccinate one disease, while many others continue to spread & inhumane conditions worsen each day. People need more.

"The reality is, these vaccinations are happening in the middle of a war zone, while many other diseases such as Hepatitis A are spreading" Louise Wateridge Health workers have successfully vaccinated 187,000 children in the first phase of #polio vaccination campaign, but the

Driving through Khan Younis where first #polio vaccinations in southern #Gaza will be provided today. +1,000 healthcare workers ready to distribute vaccines to over 200,000 children under 10. Difficult to describe the level of dedication these teams have in these conditions.

UNRWA has nearly 200 schools in #Gaza. They have all been closed since October, many serving as shelters throughout the war. In some of these schools, UNRWA teams are getting thousands of children back to learning through fun activities and psychosocial support. #UNRWAworks