Polio virus found in Gaza as soaring temperatures threaten drought

Polio has been detected in samples of sewage that is starting to take over Gaza in the grip of a devastating war, health authorities in the Hamas-run territory and Israel said Thursday. The announcement came after a European activist group released a report saying the Gaza Strip is "drowning" in hundreds of thousands of tonnes of human waste and rubble from the Israel-Hamas war. Meanwhile, soaring summer temperatures are adding to the strip's acute shortage of clean water.