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The Israel Defence Forces and Hamas agreed to three, three day humanitarian pauses in different parts of Gaza to allow children to receive polio

vaccinations the World Health Organization said.

Last week the WHO confirmed Gaza's first case of the virus in 25 years after a baby was found

to be paralyzed by the disease.

The campaign, due to begin on Sunday, aims to vaccinate around 640,000 children

against the illness.

Earlier the IDF killed five more Palestinians in the occupied West Bank following the ten they

killed there on Wednesday.

Israel said one of the five killed was the leader of a local branch of the Islamic jihad, a militant group.

Ukraine confirmed that an F-16 plane was destroyed and its pilot killed on Monday during a Russian missile barrage.

The fighter jets, quote, demonstrated their high effectiveness during the attack according to Ukraine's army.

Philodemirs Lenski, Ukraine's president, had long sought the American made planes.

NATO allies recently supplied an initial badge of as few as six.

The country had just enough pilots trained to fly them.

Germany's annual inflation rate fell to 2% in August, from 2.6% in July.

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