3-26-2020 Palestine Is Occupied, Segregated, And About To Face COVID-19 – Taya Graham The Real News Network

https://therealnews.com/stories/palestine-israel-occupied-segregated-pandemic-covid

Israeli Journalist Gideon Levy says that as more and more communities face movement restrictions to slow the spread of the coronavirus, maybe they will get a taste of what Palestinians experience every day living under Israeli military occupation.  But for Palestinians, living under restrictions day to day hasn't made it easier to cope with the new, intensified measures to contain COVID-19. Instead, Palestinians are realizing that the combination of occupation and coronavirus is torturous.  The Gaza Strip's heavily controlled border offered some protection from the virus until recently.  But the first cases of Covid-19 have been diagnosed in the besieged Gaza Strip, and doctors warn of a humanitarian catastrophe in a small dense area lacking in medicine and health facilities…earing that workers traveling between the West Bank and Israel will accelerate the spread of the disease, Israeli Minister of Defense Naftali Bennet ordered that Palestinian workers must remain in Israel for at least two weeks and be separated from their families and their social circles if they want to keep their jobs. This creates a serious dilemma for workers: should they take on a dangerous job at low pay to help provide for their family who they will not even be allowed to see?...

 

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