Cholera rages through Middle East and Africa amid vaccine shortage

Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. “Malnourished children are more vulnerable to developing severe cholera disease,” Bertrand Bainvel, UNICEF’s deputy regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in the statement. “In refugees’ camps and informal settlements, the population is mostly composed of women and children living often in precarious situations with inadequate health, water and sanitation facilities,” said Oweis, adding that as of October 22, more than half of the suspected cholera cases were children under 15 years old “living in fragile settings.” War-torn Syria has seen one of this year’s worst outbreaks. Israel’s Prime Minister Yair Lapid said, “our goal was and remains to inflict severe and lasting damage on terrorism and its agents in Jenin and Nablus and anywhere else where terrorist nests grow.” He added that the head of the Lion’s Den and other militants were assassinated in the raid and that the “terrorist laboratory of Lion’s Den was severely damaged.” Why it matters: Tuesday was the deadliest day of violence in the occupied West Bank this year, CNN analysis of official Palestinian data showed. Jadaan said the thinking about energy and climate change has now become “more realistic” in that transition will actually take “not only a year, not 10 years, possibly 30 years.” What to watch Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States, Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud, rejected the accusation that the kingdom is cooperating with Russia, saying it engages with “everybody across the board, those we agree with and those we disagree with.” In an interview with CNN’s Becky Anderson, Princess Princess Reema welcomed the Biden administration’s review of its relationship with Riyadh, because “the kingdom is not what it used to be five years ago.” “Our relationship is more than the sale of arms and it is more than the exchange of oil,” she said.