Life of Humanitarians in Gaza | United Nations

UNICEF’s documentary Gaza’s Silent Threat offers a powerful and rare glimpse into the challenges of conducting an emergency vaccination campaign in Gaza, through the personal accounts of two humanitarian workers, Dr. Younis Awadallah and Fairuz AbuWarda. The film highlights the profound direct and indirect impacts of conflict on children’s health and underscores the critical importance of a well-coordinated emergency response. UN Video interviewed the director/producer of the filim, Ms. Maria Fernanda Lauret of UNICEF in time for the release of the documentary and for World Humanitarian Day 2025. The 2024 polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip was a collaborative effort of the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the World Health Organization (WHO), and countless humanitarian actors, health workers and social mobilizers on the ground.


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