Source: Ammar Awad
Key Updates
- 325 confirmed cases in the West Bank with 4 fatalities
- 17 confirmed cases in the Gaza Strip
- ‘State of Emergency’ including school closures and travel restrictions in effect in the West Bank
- A rise in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in East Jerusalem is creating health access problems for Palestinian residents who lack an Israeli residency card and who cannot access testing in Israeli and/or Palestinian health facilities
Further Info
- WHO weekly update
- UNRWA weekly update
- OCHA weekly update
- MAP situational update
- Palestinians working in Israel face coronavirus dilemma
- Elderly Palestinian woman becomes first coronavirus fatality in occupied East Jerusalem
- B’Tselem reveals correlation between coronavirus and increased Israeli settler violence against Palestinians
- Coronavirus reveals Palestinian economic dependence on Israel
- Commentary: Three Lessons from Palestine to Overcome the Pandemic
- Opinion: Coronavirus a gift to Israeli colonisation
- Opinion Coronavirus gives Israel the perfect cover to tighten its grip over Palestinians
Take Action
Israel’s blockade on Gaza will have catastrophic effects on the spread and fatality of coronavirus within the besieged strip. We must urge the UK to use its diplomatic power to put end to this, so that Palestinians can gain access to the healthcare they need during this crisis. Write to your MP today.