Gaza will continue to suffer long after the pandemic subsides
Aaron Lakoff
Mondoweiss.net / April 15, 2020
Today’s dispatch comes from Asmaa Tayeh. Asmaa lives in the Jabalia Refugee Camp in the north of the Gaza Strip, and works as the Operations Manager for We Are Not Numbers (WANN), a citizen journalism project for Palestinian youth in Gaza.
I start by asking her how...
Will EU and pandemic pave way for Israeli global surveillance?
Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada / April 13, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is a priceless opportunity for governments and spy firms to expand their reach into people’s lives.
Public health authorities say effective contact tracing will be crucial to ending broad lockdowns and quickly halting new outbreaks of the virus, at least until a...
13 Palestinian journalists languish in Israeli jails
Middle East Monitor / April 17, 2020
At least 13 journalists are currently being held in Israeli prisons, a journalist association said Friday, Anadolu Agency reports.
Two female journalists are among the detainees, according to a statement by Palestinian Journalist Syndicate deputy Tahseen al-Astal.
He stressed the aim is to prevent journalists from doing...
Report: Marwan Barghouthi enters 19th year in Israel prisons
Middle East Monitor / April 16, 2020
Palestinian Fatah Central Committee member and lawmaker, Marwan Barghouthi, yesterday entered his 19th year in Israeli jails on charges of leading the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades; the armed wing of the Fatah movement.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said in a report that Barghouthi along with...
On Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, the struggle should frame the call for freedom, not Covid-19
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / April 16, 2020
The annual commemoration of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day can turn easily into a travesty of remembrance. This year, 17 April will be marked with statements calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails on humanitarian grounds due to the coronavirus pandemic....
Israel restricts UNRWA coronavirus efforts in Jerusalem refugee camps
Middle East Monitor / April 16, 2020
Spokesperson for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) Sami Mshasha said the Israeli occupation authorities are impeding UNRWA’s efforts to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in the occupied city of Jerusalem and its refugee camps, the organisation’s...
Israeli neglect fuels coronavirus in East Jerusalem
Tamara Nassar
The Electronic Intifada / April 15, 2020
Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem face the prospect of a major coronavirus outbreak, fuelled and exacerbated by Israeli neglect.
Despite repeated warnings from health professionals and even Israel’s mayor of Jerusalem Moshe Leon, Israel has done little to prevent an outbreak.
What makes the situation even...
Number of Palestinian families living under poverty line could double, warns minister
Middle East Monitor / April 16, 2020
The number of Palestinian families living under the official poverty line is expected to double in the coming months due to the coronavirus crisis, the Palestinian Authority’s Social Development Minister warned yesterday.
Ahmad Majdalani told reporters in Ramallah that some 53,000 families have dropped...
