Palestinian prisoners simply don’t matter to Israel’s security narrative, even in a pandemic
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / April 2, 2020
Unsurprisingly, Israel has not heeded requests to safeguard the health of Palestinian prisoners in its jails. Besides recommending “precautionary measures”, which are likely to provide no protection in confined spaces, it seems that Israel will persist with its medical neglect strategies, which...
If pandemic hits, unrecognized Bedouin villages could ‘become like northern Italy’
Oren Ziv
+972 Magazine / March 29, 2020
Denied basic services, the Naqab's unrecognized villages are not equipped to deal with the coronavirus — and the Israeli government is not stepping in.
The unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Naqab/Negev in southern Israel are facing a crisis in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic, say residents and activists....
Occupation authorities arrest 250 Palestinians, including 54 children
Middle East Monitor / April 3, 2020
The occupation army continued its aggression and arrests in the occupied Palestinian territories during the month of March, despite the spread of the coronavirus, attaining 250 recorded arrests, including the detention of 54 children.
The occupation prisons have been overwhelmed since last month by a state...
‘We’ve been through worse’ — Palestinian resilience continues in face of COVID-19
Yumna Patel
Mondoweiss.net / March 31, 2020
In the past few days we have watched the number of coronavirus cases climb in Palestine; and it has become ever more apparent that this crisis is going to get much worse before it gets better.
There was a hope that the virus could be...
Facing an invisible enemy in Gaza
Sarah Algherbawi
The Electronic Intifada / April 2, 2020
I’m writing this article in the second week of isolation.
Coronavirus arrived in Gaza on 22 March when news broke that it had been detected in two people who were returning from Pakistan.
Since then, and at time of writing, ten more cases have been reported...
Israel needs the Arab world to be ruled by dictators
Asa Winstanley
Middle East Monitor / April 1, 2020
In February, the chief of the Mossad, Israel’s global death squad, visited Doha, the capital of Qatar; Yossi Cohen was accompanied by Major General Herzi Halevi, the head of the Israeli army’s Southern Command. They went at the invitation of Emir Tamim...
Calls for Israel to release sick Palestinian prisoners
Middle East Monitor / April 2, 2020
A number of rights groups yesterday launched a petition calling on Israel to release sick Palestinian detainees, Quds Net News reported.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Club and the Centre for Defence of Liberties and Civil Rights (Hurryyat) are among those who called for the release of more than 1,000 prisoners,...
Israel links coronavirus aid for Gaza to recovering soldiers
Middle East Monitor / April 1, 2020
Israel on Wednesday linked any assistance it might offer for the Gaza Strip’s efforts against coronavirus to progress in its attempt to recover two Israeli soldiers lost during the 2014 war in the Palestinian enclave, Reuters reports.
Blockaded and impoverished, Islamist Hamas-ruled Gaza has reported 12...
Israel renews administrative detention for female Palestinian journalist
Middle East Monitor / March 31, 2020
Israeli authorities renewed on Sunday the administrative detention of the female Palestinian prisoner Bushra al-Tawil, 27, from the occupied West Bank city of Al-Bireh, Quds Press reported.
According to the Prisoners’ Media Office, Quds Press said this was the second round of administrative detention for Al-Tawil and it...
