As the latest surge in COVID-19 cases continues to strain Palestinian hospitals, in Gaza health officials have reimposed a widespread mandatory quarantine at government-designated centers for returning travelers.
Gaza’s hospitals are nearing capacity as a surge in coronavirus cases continued for another week, and the number of deaths has doubled from just seven days ago.
Once more, the holy month of Ramadan arrives while its tragedies are still festering, this time a surge in coronavirus cases in the occupied Palestinian territory.
COVID-19 did not invent systematic injustice, but it has exposed and sharpened injustices already there. Israel’s refusal to vaccinate Palestinians is but the latest chapter of its decades-long practice of colonialism, ethnic cleansing, military occupation and, of course, apartheid against the Palestinian people. The U.S. is itself a settler-colony with centuries of systematic racism to its name, and the tolls of COVID-19 remain systematically centered around Indigenous, Black and brown people. There is a name for this, and it’s medical apartheid. It’s time to take a stand to end all military funding to an apartheid regime overseas and to demand the end to apartheid right here.
Palestinian volunteers clean the Al-Aqsa mosque compound ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan,…
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s denunciation of disparities in medical access in the U.S. will sound hollow if he accepts the Dan David Prize from Israel, a country that is denying people under its illegal military occupation access to life-saving vaccines while bribing allies with the extra doses.
For the second week in a row, confirmed cases of COVID-19 doubled in Gaza as the third wave continues to strap Palestinian medical systems. In the West Bank, for a fifth week in a row hospitals are overwhelmed, with ICUs at 100% capacity.
UNRWA employees wear face masks outside a UN clinic in Deir El-Balah, in the center…
275,479 Palestinians tested positive for COVID-19; 236,633 recoveries; 2,917 deathsOf Palestinians who tested positive, 179,039…
It’s one week into vaccination campaigns in the West Bank and Gaza, and while the rates of spread from the third wave of the virus have finally decreased, hospitalizations and deaths have stayed high.