Gaza faces coronavirus alone after a 14-year lockdown
Ahmet Alioglu
Middle East Monitor / March 24, 2020
Humans never thinks of the blessings they have unless they’re lost or about to vanish. Freedom to move is an unequivocal human right that is taken for granted everywhere except in conflict zones or besieged areas like the Gaza Strip. People living...
Palestinian shoemaker behind West Bank’s only mask factory
Middle East Monitor / March 24, 2020
A Palestinian shoemaker has responded to the coronavirus crisis by transforming his Hebron factory into the only manufacturer of face masks in the occupied West Bank, reported +972 Magazine.
Amjad Zaghir made the shift “overnight”, and now oversees the production of “thousands of masks a...
Arab League urges international community to pressure Israel to release Palestinian detainees
Middle East Monitor / March 24, 2020
The Arab League today has called on the international community to urge Israeli authorities to release Palestinian detainees held in Israeli jails amid fears of the spread of coronavirus.
Fears of a coronavirus outbreak in prisons holding Palestinian detainees were compounded following confirmation from the...
Israeli settlers storm West Bank village, beat residents with sticks and sharp objects
Shatha Hammad
Middle East Eye / March 24, 2020
Israeli army accused of allowing settler attack which resulted in the skull fracture of a 49-year-old man and several other injuries.
Israeli settlers stormed a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday and injured several residents, resulting in the skull fracture of a...
‘They dumped him like trash’: Palestinian with suspected coronavirus symptoms thrown out of Israel
Akram al-Waara
Middle East Eye / March 23, 2020
Palestinian man was found struggling to breathe in a scene eyewitness described as something out of a horror film.
It was like a scene straight out of a horror film.
That's how 25-year-old Ibrahim Abu Safiya described the moment he saw someone lying on...
Israel’s illegal occupation exacerbates the coronavirus crisis
Robert Andrews
Middle East Monitor / March 23, 2020
Every morning, tens of thousands of Palestinians line up at one of over 140 fixed Israeli checkpoints spread across the occupied West Bank. These permanent structures separate Palestinian cities, towns and villages, as well as families, from one another and severely limit...
Coronavirus: Advice from Palestinians on life under lockdown
Mariam Barghouti
Middle East Eye / March 22, 2020
In a more tragic way, isolation has long been part and parcel of the Palestinian reality
I phoned my mother to ask: "What were we doing during curfew times in the Intifada?" My mother laughed, and replied: "We baked. A lot."
Indeed, I remember...
