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Polio was all but forgotten in Gaza until the World Health Organization (WHO) reported in July that the virus had been detected in six environmental samples from Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip.

But by the convention’s final morning, down the hall away from the main stage, hearts were breaking at a press conference held by “uncommitted” delegates. The thirty delegates, representing approximately 740,000 uncommitted Democratic primary voters from Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and a half dozen other states, had been pushing all week for a change in course of the administration’s financial, military, and political support of Israel’s war on Gaza. Many saw themselves as fighting to save the soul of the Democratic Party, which espouses to be the party of democracy and human rights but has enabled a genocidal war.