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US Cautions Against Escalating Tensions Between Israel, Hezbollah

A man checks the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted a house in the southern Lebanese village of Jibshit on February 27, 2024. (Photo by MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP)
A man checks the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted a house in the southern Lebanese village of Jibshit on February 27, 2024. (Photo by MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP)
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US Cautions Against Escalating Tensions Between Israel, Hezbollah

A man checks the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted a house in the southern Lebanese village of Jibshit on February 27, 2024. (Photo by MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP)
A man checks the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted a house in the southern Lebanese village of Jibshit on February 27, 2024. (Photo by MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP)

The United States does not want to see tensions rise further between Israel and Hezbollah, the US State Department said on Tuesday.

It said Israel has assured Washington it wants a diplomatic solution to the issue.

Hezbollah said it had launched a volley of rockets at an Israeli aerial surveillance base earlier on Tuesday in response to the Israeli military's deepest attack yet into Lebanese territory, with no immediate reports of casualties from the rockets.

The army said it detected a total of 20 launches from Lebanon on Tuesday. It said some were intercepted by air defense systems while others landed in open areas.

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WHO Sends Over 1 Mln Polio Vaccines to Gaza to Protect Children 

Displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, look out from a window as they take shelter, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, July 24, 2024. (Reuters)
Displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, look out from a window as they take shelter, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, July 24, 2024. (Reuters)
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WHO Sends Over 1 Mln Polio Vaccines to Gaza to Protect Children 

Displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, look out from a window as they take shelter, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, July 24, 2024. (Reuters)
Displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, look out from a window as they take shelter, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, July 24, 2024. (Reuters)

The World Health Organization is sending more than one million polio vaccines to Gaza to be administered over the coming weeks to prevent children being infected after the virus was detected in sewage samples, its chief said on Friday.

"While no cases of polio have been recorded yet, without immediate action, it is just a matter of time before it reaches the thousands of children who have been left unprotected," Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in an opinion piece in Britain's The Guardian newspaper.

He wrote that children under five were most at risk from the viral disease, and especially infants under two since normal vaccination campaigns have been disrupted by more than nine months of conflict.

Poliomyelitis, which is spread mainly through the fecal-oral route, is a highly infectious virus that can invade the nervous system and cause paralysis. Cases of polio have declined by 99% worldwide since 1988 thanks to mass vaccination campaigns and efforts continue to eradicate it completely.

Israel's military said on Sunday it would start offering the polio vaccine to soldiers serving in the Gaza Strip after remnants of the virus were found in test samples in the enclave.

Besides polio, the UN reported last week a widespread increase in cases of Hepatitis A, dysentery and gastroenteritis as sanitary conditions deteriorate in Gaza, with sewage spilling into the streets near some camps for displaced people.