(2020-04-13). Gaza resumes coronavirus testing amid kits shortages — spokesman. rt.com 
Coronavirus testing has resumed in the Gaza Strip after Israel allowed five testing kits purchased by the World Health Organization (WHO) into the enclave. A Gaza Health Ministry spokesman, Ashraf al-Qidra, said on Monday that the kits would be of "limited immediate help" because they could be used to test only about 500 people in a densely populated territory of two million. | "We began testing immediately after receiving the kits late [on Sunday] night," Qidra said. "We need to carry out these tests all the time and therefore, we are in need of thousands of testing kits." | Health officials in Gaza said on A…
(2020-04-13). A Palestinian Guide to Surviving a Quarantine. counterpunch.org Call it a 'quarantine', a 'shelter-in-place', a 'lockdown' or a 'curfew', we Palestinians have experienced them all, though not at all voluntarily. Personally, the first 23 years of my life were lived in virtual 'lockdown'. My father's 'quarantine' was experienced much earlier, as did his father's 'shelter-in-place' before him. They both died and were buried
(2020-04-13). Rationing PPE Means Checking on COVID Patients Less Often. This Can Be Deadly. truthout.org Every morning, between 7 and 8, at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, several coronavirus patients are pronounced dead. | It's not that more people die at the beginning of the day, according to two medical providers at the hospital. But as a new shift arrives, doctors and nurses find patients who have died in the hours before and went undetected by a thin overnight staff. | Health care workers at several New York hospitals say they aren't entering patient rooms as often as usual. Th…
(2020-04-13). Mossad's 'Invaluable' Efforts to Help Israel Combat Coronavirus Revealed. sputniknews.com The Israeli Health Ministry on Sunday reported that the country's confirmed COVID-19 cases had risen to 10,878, with 103 fatalities.
(2020-04-12). Poetry: Rhyming not necessary but some assembly required. dissidentvoice.org 
This sense of viral isolation, dread and global make-over (for good and worse) gets the proverbial juices flowing of our local and national bards. It's not a stretch to say there are many people on our coast and farther east who consider themselves to be "poets." With a liberal dose of simile, any number of …
(2020-04-12). Israeli Troops Abduct 3 Palestinians in the West Bank, Spit on Walls and Floors. imemc.org Israeli troops abducted, on Sunday, a number of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, local media outlets reported. According to Wafa News Agency, among those arrested is a Palestinian child in the Beit Ummar village, north of the West Bank city of Hebron. Wafa quoted media activist, Mohamad Awwad, as …
(2020-04-12). A Palestinian Guide to Surviving a Quarantine: On Faith, Humor, and 'Dutch Candy'. commondreams.org Palestinian children wearing protective face masks play at their house in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip during the novel coronavirus pandemic crisis on April 11, 2020. (Photo: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/palestine_coronavirus.jpg …
(2020-04-12). A Palestinian Guide to Surviving a Quarantine: On Faith, Humor and "Dutch Candy" dissidentvoice.org Call it a 'quarantine', a 'shelter-in-place', a 'lockdown' or a 'curfew', we Palestinians have experienced them all, though not at all voluntarily. Personally, the first 23 years of my life were lived in virtual 'lockdown'. My father's 'quarantine' was experienced much earlier, as did his father's 'shelter-in-place' before him. They both died and were buried …
(2020-04-12). Israeli Colonists Cut 50 Olive Saplings near Bethlehem. imemc.org Illegal Israeli settlers cut 50 olive saplings belonging to Palestinians, on Sunday, in the town of al-Khader, near the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to a local source. Head of the Colonization Resistance Commission in Bethlehem, Hasan Breijieh, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that settlers from the nearby …
(2020-04-12). Israeli Troops Open Fire on Palestinian Farmers in Southern Gaza. imemc.org Israeli troops opened fire, early on Sunday morning, on a number of Palestinian farmers in the southern besieged Gaza Strip. Local Palestinian media sources and witnesses said that Israeli troops, stationed on watch towers, near the border fence with Khuza'a village, southeast of the coastal territory, opened fire with their …
(2020-04-12). Israeli Forces Shoot, Injure One Palestinian, Detain Another in Jerusalem. imemc.org Israeli forces opened fire at Palestinians in the northwest of Jerusalem on Friday, wounding one young man and causing others to suffer the toxic effects of tear-gas. Local sources told Quds News Network that Israeli forces shot the young man, 20, in the thigh, the young man, who remained unidentified …
(2020-04-11). Israeli Colonists Desecrate Palestinian Cemetery near Nablus. imemc.org Illegal Israeli settlers desecrated, on Wednesday night, several gravestones in a Palestinian cemetery in the village of Burqa, north of city of Nablus, Days of Palestine reported. Local official in charge of documenting Israeli settlement crimes in the northern occupied West Bank, Ghassan Daghlas said that illegal Israeli settlers invaded …
(2020-04-11). PLO Warns Against Joint US-Israeli Annexation Plans. imemc.org The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), warned on Saturday against a recently-leaked understanding between the USA and Israel over some Israeli plans for the possible annexation of Palestinian lands, for the purpose of illegal colonial settlements on the occupied Palestinian territories. In a statement, issued by the Department for the Defense …
(2020-04-11). Prisoners Committee Concerned Over Palestinian Prisoner's Condition. imemc.org The Ramallah-based Palestinian Committee for Prisoners and Ex-prisoners Affairs, on Saturday, expressed its deep concern over the condition of a Palestinian prisoner, inside Israel's Ramon prison. In a statement, released by the committee, the condition of prisoner, Mohammed Halabi, 42, from the Gaza Strip refugee camp of Jabalia, is getting …
(2020-04-10). Faith, Humor and Dutch Candy: A Palestinian Guide to Surviving Quarantine. mintpressnews.com 
The coronavirus quarantine is no radical departure for many Palestinians, who have learned to live in a state of virtual 'lockdown' since the late 1940s.
(2020-04-10). Israeli Forces Suppress Weekly Protest, Many Palestinians Suffer Inhalation Injuries. imemc.org Palestinian media reports said that Palestinian residents in the central West Bank town of Kufur Qaddoum suffocated on tear-gas, fired by Israeli troops on Friday. Spokesperson for the Popular Committee for the Resistance of Israel's Apartheid Wall in the Qalqilia city of the West Bank, Morad Eshteiwi, told media outlets …
(2020-04-10). Israeli Troops Abduct One Palestinian, Close Town East of Hebron. imemc.org Israeli troops reportedly closed down the entrance to Bany Naeem town, on Friday, on the eastern edge of the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron. Local media sources and witnesses said that an Israeli army force surrounded the town, before it abducted a Palestinian youth, identified as Mahdi Abusnaina, …
(2020-04-10). Mideast: COVID-19 Cases in Israel Exceed 10,000; Yemen 1st Case. telesurenglish.net The number of novel coronavirus cases in Israel increased to 10,408 on Friday. Meanwhile, the Saudi-backed Yemeni government declared the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the country. | RELATED: | The death toll of COVID-19 has reached 95 in Israel, with a daily increase of nine deaths on Friday. | The Israeli government has put emergency regulation restrictions to reduce the COVID-19 spread, as Israelis on Wednesday beg…
(2020-04-10). PCHR: Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (02 — 08 April 2020). imemc.org Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) Summary Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to violate Palestinians' human rights and commit crimes against civilians and their properties, conducting raids into Palestinian cities without regard to the state of emergency declared across the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) since 06 March 2020, in the …
(2020-04-09). COVID-19: The Zionist Underpinnings of Israel's Violent Crackdown on Haredi Jews. mintpressnews.com 
In a conversation I had with Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro for an upcoming episode of the "They did not get these values, of loving their guns and stealing Palestinian land, from Judaism," he said. He explained that Jewish people throughout history have kept to themselves, avoided violence and war, and, in fact, are prohibited by heavenly decree from sovereignty over the Holy Land. "Establishing sovereignty in the Holy Land, from which we were expelled by the Almighty…
(2020-04-08). The Jewish Chronicle and Jewish News are closing down. thecanary.co The A statement in the JC
(2020-02-07). Russia Says Israel Used Civilian Plane as Human Shield During Syria Strikes. theantimedia.com Russia accused Israel of "making a total mockery of the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians."