Due to the rising numbers, the government announced a full-scale one week closure in select districts of the West Bank.

Palestinians surpassed a grim milestone this week with more than 100,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, as healthcare officials struggle to control the virus that has nearly overwhelmed hospitals in Gaza, and caused a weekend lockdown in the West Bank.

Health officials in Gaza say they are days away from running out of hospital beds, sounding the alarm as coronavirus cases continued to radically spike over the last week, sending younger patients to critical care wards for the first time.

Palestine saw the highest rate of daily infections of the coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic in the past 24 hours, following the first weekend of newly imposed lockdowns in the West Bank.

Palestinians recorded 891 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, the highest number of new infections in a 24-hour period to date, as health officials struggle to contain a surge in spread over the last month.

Palestinians, like many other people around the globe, have largely settled into a new reality, accepting COVID-19 as an unfortunate reality, but a reality they must live with nonetheless. That is, until this week.

Over the past week the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases continued to increase in both the West Bank and Gaza, further entrenching November’s trend of a rising second wave.

Israel and Palestine begin to prepare for a possible COVID-19 vaccine as the UN agency responsible for Palestinian refugees—including health services—announced it has run out of money.

After seven weeks of declining COVID-19 infections across the occupied Palestinian territory, this week marked an increase in active cases for the first time since mid-September, and comes just weeks after students returned to in-person instruction.

Palestinian students wear face masks as schools partially reopened amid the coronavirus pandemic in Deir…