Israel holds 200 child prisoners with minimum healthcare provision
Middle East Monitor / April 6, 2020
The Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs and Ex-Prisoners in Gaza reported yesterday that there are 200 Palestinian children held by Israel in prison who do not receive sufficient healthcare provision. They even lack the necessary protection to help curb the spread of...
Lebanon: refugees at risk in COVID-19 response
Human Rights Watch / April 2, 2020
Discrimination risks harming Syrians – among whom many Palestinians –
and Lebanese alike.
Syrian refugees in a building under construction they have been using as a shelter in a city in southern Lebanon, on March 17, 2020, after Lebanon urged people to stay...
Israeli police detain Jerusalem governor
Middle East Monitor / April 5, 2020
Israeli police on Sunday detained Jerusalem Governor Adnan Ghaith, reports Anadolu Agency and local media outlets.
A video released by the Jerusalem-based Wadi Hilweh Information Center showed police forcefully detaining Ghaith from his home in Jerusalem’s neighbourhood of Silwan.
Ghaith has been detained...
Hamas: ‘Possibility to move forward with prisoner swap’
Middle East Monitor / April 4, 2020
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas announced on Friday that media statements have been exchanged between its leader in Gaza, Yahya al-Sinwar, and Israeli officials regarding “an opportunity” to release Palestinian prisoners in return for the remains of Israeli soldiers.
In a...
Israel settlements turn Palestinian house into cage
Middle East Monitor / April 4, 2020
Palestinian Saadat Sabri Gharib, 38, had never imagined that his house, which was built by his father in 1979, would be turned into a very narrow cage surrounded by barbed wire and surveillance cameras.
Gharib’s house is located in the Beit Ijza...
‘We’ve survived wars but never faced this’: inside the Lebanon refugee camps bracing for...
Bel Trew & Samira el-Azar
The Independent / April 4, 2020
One in four people in Lebanon is a refugee, they are now among the most vulnerable to Covid-19.
If Fairouz, 45, stretches out far enough she can touch the next tent belonging to her neighbour.
The distance between her battered...
Voices from the Middle East: COVID-19 threatens disaster in blockaded Gaza
Salam Khashan & Danya Qato
Middle East Report Online / April 2, 2020
Danya Qato, an epidemiologist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, interviewed Salam Khashan, a physician at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza, Palestine on March 28, 2020, about the decimated Palestinian health care system and...
PA extends state of emergency amid fears of rising coronavirus cases
Middle East Monitor / April 3, 2020
Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas announced he has issued a decree extending the state of emergency for another month in the occupied territories, Wafa news agency reported.
The move comes in an effort to enable the health and security services...
