Siege, Wall, Checkpoints
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| Coronavirus in the Gaza Strip - Only 70 ICU Beds Available | | - Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) - Last Sunday, the first
two cases of COVID-19 were discovered in the Gaza Strip. This is
exactly the scenario authorities in the Gaza Strip have been trying
to avert for weeks by strictly monitoring and isolating people
returning to the Strip, preventing gatherings and shutting down
schools. Now that the virus has entered Gaza, they must adjust to a
new reality of community transmission.
This is a particularly ominous prospect given Gaza’s unique
predicament, an area under occupation and siege with a health care
system already plagued by severe shortages of funds, medical
equipment, medicine, and staff, and it raises several concerns
regarding preparedness for the coronavirus.
Will Gaza’s health care system be able to stem the spread of the
virus? [ak] | 24/3/2020 |
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| Demand Israel Protect Gaza Palestinians in — Lift the Blockade, Make Medical Supplies Accessible | | IfNotNow - 1.8 million Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip
appear to be on the precipice of catastrophe — and the Israeli
government, which controls what goes in and out of Gaza, has a
responsibility to act now. Palestinians in Gaza must now weather the
Coronavirus in addition to the punishing, 15-year-long Israeli
blockade. The international community must do everything it can to
protect everyone in the world from this pandemic — and this must
include the stateless Palestinians in Gaza, whose lives are
controlled by the Israeli military.If there was ever a moment to
realize that we are in this fight together, it is now.[ak]
| 24/3/2020 |
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| Israel must protest Gaza Palestinians from Coronavirus outbreak - sign the petition! | | | 24/3/2020 |
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| Israel’s caging of Gaza is a recipe for coronavirus disaster | | Jehad Abusalim -
+972
"It is no exaggeration to say that the prospect of COVID-19
spreading in the Gaza Strip is terrifying. This year, 2020, is the
year in which the United Nations and other international agencies
predicted that Gaza would become “uninhabitable.” If Israel’s 13-
year blockade and isolation of the strip continued, they warned,
Gaza’s most basic services and its capacity to sustain itself would
collapse." ca | 23/3/2020 |
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| Fear, anxiety as besieged Gaza confirms first 2 coronavirus cases | | Farah Najjar & Maram Humaid - Al Jazeera - Authorities in the coastal enclave
have shut restaurants and cafes, while Friday prayers have also been suspended
[ry] | 23/3/2020 |
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| Fear, anxiety as besieged Gaza confirms first 2 coronavirus cases | | Farah Najjar and Maram Humaid - Al Jazeera - Authorities in the coastal enclave
have shut restaurants and cafes, while Friday prayers have also been suspended
[ry]
| 23/3/2020 |
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| Coronavirus causes riots in the Gaza Strip | | Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Gaza - Authorities in the Gaza
Strip ordered all returnees from abroad via Rafah Border Crossing to
be placed in a mandatory quarantine at al-Nasser village, northeast
of Rafah City - as a precautionary measure to prevent the outbreak
of Coronavirus (COVID-19). The villages`s schools of Ghassan
Kanafani and Marmarah were taken over to serve as quarantine
centers. On Sunday March 15, hundreds of al-Nasser villagers held a
peaceful protest against this measure and were forcibly disperesd by
Gazan security forces. Some ten citizens, including a child and a
woman, sustained fractures and bruises all over their bodies and
about 50 citizens, including 15 children, were arrested - some at
the protest itself and some taken later from their homes. PCHR
affirms the security forces’ right to enforce their decision,
particularly in this stage and in light of the state of emergency
declared by the Palestinian President to avoid the outbreak of
Coronavirus; however, it stresses that the authorities should adhere
to the proportionality standards for use of force and the
regulations on the use of firearms in all circumstances. [ak] | 17/3/2020 |
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| Adalah - dragging a human body by bulldozer is a war crime | | IMEMC - The Adalah Legal Center sent an urgent letter to Sharon
Afek, head of the IDF legal branch. demanding he immediately open a
criminal investigation into the incident that occurred Sunday
morning near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, in which an
Israeli military armored bulldozer was filmed dragging a human body
along the ground and repeatedly lifting it up in the air and
dropping it down in the mud. Adalah Attorney Sawsan Zaher detailed a
series of international laws – including the Rome Statute, the UN
Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment, and the Hague Regulations – which classify the Israeli
military actions depicted in the video as war crimes and blatant
violations of international criminal law, and international human
rights and humanitarian law. The Israeli Supreme Court has likewise
recognized in past rulings that harm to the dignity of the deceased
is a violation of Israel’s Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty.[ak]
| 25/2/2020 |
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| Despite attempt to change rules with Syria strikes, Israel’s Gaza policy failing | | Avi Issacharoff - Times of Israel - The IDF officer who decided to
take extreme action to collect a body as "a bargaining chip" likely
didn’t realize that footage of the body on the bulldozer blade being
spread all over social media would lead to dozens of rockets being
fired at Israel.(...) The main Israeli response was far away, on the
Syrian front, where many Islamic Jihad targets near Damascus were
hit - a surprising step, designed to make PIJ decision-makers "think
twice and thrice before attempting another attack". The military and
the government are trying to set up a new equation by which
escalation with Israel will hurt not only Gaza but also PIJ leaders
in Syria, who have thus far enjoyed a degree of immunity from
Israeli strikes. However, even by its own standard, PIJ went
overboard with its response of extensive launching of rockets.(...)
Hamas stayed on the sidelines, neither participating in the
launching of rockets nor restraining the PIJ. The Israeli policy is
clearly not working. [ak] | 25/2/2020 |
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| Israeli forces kill Palestinian near Gaza fence, wound two others | | Al Jazeera -
Live
NEWS/PALESTINE
Israeli forces kill Palestinian near Gaza fence, wound two others
Palestinian factions in Gaza fire rockets towards Israel after army bulldozer
removed body of dead Palestinian [ry] | 24/2/2020 |
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| Report: Hamas to halt balloon bomb attacks as part of Gaza agreement | | Elior Levy - Y-Net/Al-Quds - According to Al-Quds Newspaper,
Egyptian mediators trying to negotiate long-term ceasefire deal
between Hamas and Israel succeeded to gain the agreement of Hamas to
cease the sending of balloon bombs into Israel. Such baloons, of
which many dozens were sent in the past two weeks, did not cause any
casualties or significant damage, but greatly alarmed Israeli
civilians in the locations where they were carried by the wind - in
some cases a hundred kilometers or more from the Gaza border. Thus,
the balloons are an ideal negotiations tactic - they cause Israeli
communities to vent anger and frustration at the government, in time
of a general elections campaign, while not providing a real
pretext for a massive Israeli offensive on Gaza. It was not
specified what is willing to offer in return. While seeking a long
term agreement in and around Gaza, the Egyptian mediators were also
concerned to prevent a flareup in the short range. In Tel Aviv they
heard blunt threats against Hamas, while in Gaza Hamas warned of
possible Israeli plans to assassinate the organization`s leader
Yihya Sinwar - an act which would certainly lead to an all-out armed
confrontation. [ak] | 11/2/2020 |
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| Israel blocks Palestinian agricultural exports via Jordan | | Al Jazeera - Israel escalates trade war with the Palestinians by stopping their
agricultural exports amid fears of renewed violence [ry] | 10/2/2020 |
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