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Palestinian Kindergarten teacher wearing a face mask and gloves, play with children after the decision to open schools across the Gaza Strip, in Gaza City, on June 2, 2020. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour/APA Images)

With the state of emergency lifted across the West Bank and Gaza, the coronavirus pandemic appears to be winding into a new phase, one of social distancing but inevitable crowds as shops and mosques reopen.

Protest for George Floyd in Marin City, California on June 2, 2020. (Photo: Peg Hunter/Flickr)

Uprisings across all 50 states continued into this week, with thousands protesting the police murder of George Floyd. A number of pro-Palestine organizations put out powerful statements in solidarity with the actions.

A Palestinian child wears a mask as he runs between alleys in Al-Shate' refugee camp, in the Gaza Strip on May 18, 2020. Photo by Mahmoud Al-Hindi/APA Images

After a lull in cases over the previous period this week saw a slight spike in cases of COVID-19, most alarmingly in Gaza where the coronavirus had been kept in check until now.

Joe Biden on BDS: “the BDS movement, which singles out Israel — home to millions of Jews — and too often veers into anti-Semitism, while letting Palestinians off the hook for their choices.”