Israel's Farmers Might be Used to Rockets from Gaza but COVID-19 Poses New Threat to Their Business
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-09
The spread of Coronavirus has shut down 70 percent of Israel's small and middle-size businesses, cost more than a million Israelis their jobs, and devastated the farmers of the south. Although the government had pledged assistance, it is a drop in the ocean and might not suffice to keep the economy afloat.
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Life in Gaza: Dispatches From Palestine on COVID-19
Asmaa Tayeh | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-08
Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) is releasing a series of dispatches from Palestinians and Palestine solidarity activists reflecting on life in Gaza and the West Bank under the COVID-19 pandemic. As the world grapples with the outbreak, and as we organize …
globalresearch.ca/dispatches-palestine-covid-19/5709100

Palestinian Farmers near Hebron Suffocate after Israeli Forces, Settlers Attack
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-08
Palestinian farmers on Tuesday, suffered inhalation injuries during an attack by illegal Israeli settlers in Ash-Shuyukh town, near the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, according to local sources. Ahmad al-Halayqa, media activist, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that colonial settlers, under Israeli military protection, attacked Palestinian farmers in She'ib …
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US Gov Gives 1M Masks To Israel During Shortage, Coronavirus Censorship & Trump 'Holds' WHO Funding
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-04-08
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (4/7/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
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Armed Settlers Attack Man, Abduct his 2 Sons near Ramallah
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-08
Israeli settlers on Tuesday, attacked a Palestinian man in the village of Kobar, northwest of Ramallah, and kidnapped his two sons, according to Kobar mayor, Izzat Badwan. Badwan told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that around 10 armed settlers from the illegal settlement of Halamish, built on Palestinian lands near Kobar. …
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Why is this Passover, in the U.S. and Israel, different from all other Passovers?
Eric A. Gordon | peoplesworld.org | 2020-04-08
The eight-day observance of Passover, which begins this year on Wednesday night, April 8, is the most celebrated holiday in the Jewish calendar year, more even than the so-called "High Holidays" of the New Year (Rosh Hashone) and the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). One part of the explanation is that the central event of …
peoplesworld.org/article/why-is-this-passover-in-the-u-s-and-israel-different-from-all-other-passovers/

Israeli Naval Forces Wound Palestinian Fisherman in Northern Gaza
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-08
Israeli naval forces reportedly shot and wounded a Palestinian fisherman, on Wednesday, off the northern coast of the tiny Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip. Local media outlets reported that at least one Palestinian fisherman was shot and wounded earlier on Wednesday morning, after naval Israeli forces chased and intercepted …
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Israeli Troops Seize Palestinian-owned Tractor in Hebron
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-08
Israeli troops reportedly seized on Wednesday, a Palestinian-owned tractor in the northern Hebron city, southern West Bank. Palestinian chief of the local committee for resisting the Israeli Apartheid Wall in Bethlehem city, Hassan Braiga, told media outlets that the troops broke into the Aseer farm land, near the Israeli colonial …
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A Nurse Bought Protective Supplies for Colleagues. The Hospital Suspended Her
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-08
Olga Matievskaya and her fellow intensive care nurses at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in New Jersey were so desperate for gowns and masks to protect themselves from the coronavirus that they turned to the online fundraising site GoFundMe to raise money. | The donations flowed in

International Solidarity Movement Responds to Report of FBI Probe
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-08
This is the statement from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in response to a report published by The Intercept detailing an investigation of the ISM conducted by the FBI from 2004

The Jewish Chronicle and Jewish News are closing down
John Ranson | thecanary.co | 2020-04-08
The Jewish Chronicle (JC) and Jewish News (JN) are set to close down after announcing the company which owns them is seeking a liquidation agreement. | A statement in the JC said: The liquidation is expected to be finalised in the coming 2 to 3 weeks and every effort will be made to ensure that the paper continues to be published over this period and the website continues to provide regular upda…
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3 Palestinian Workers Attacked, Injured by Israeli Settlers in West Jerusalem
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-07
A group of Israeli settlers attacked three Palestinian workers in occupied West Jerusalem, on Sunday, according to the Wadi Hilweh Information Center (Silwanic). Majed Fasfous 30, told the Center that the illegal settlers attacked him with a knife, stabbed him in the head, attempted to stab him in the back …
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Shipping Container Confiscated by Israeli Forces near Hebron
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-07
Israeli forces Monday, seized a shipping container and tore down a stall in the Palestinian village of Khirbet Qalqas, south of Hebron city, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. WAFA correspondent confirmed that Israeli forces escorted heavy equipment into the village, in the southern occupied West Bank, where the heavy machinery …
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Israeli Troops Invade Parts of Gaza with Tanks, Bulldozers
Rami Almeghari | imemc.org | 2020-04-07
Israeli troops reportedly, incurred earlier on Tuesday, into the northwestern part of the besieged Gaza Strip, with tanks and D-9 bulldozers. Local media outlets and witnesses said that at least four army bulldozers as well as other armored vehicles, incurred several hundred meters deep into a northwestern part of the …
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Committee Concerned About Health of Palestinian Prisoners
Rami Almeghari | imemc.org | 2020-04-07
Representative of the Ramallah-based Committee for Palestinian Prisoners and Ex-prisoners, Hassan Abd Rabo, expressed on Tuesday the committee's growing concerns over the safety of the 5,000 Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails. Abd Rabo's remarks come amidst the internationally-spread Coronavirus, inside Israel and some Palestinian cities, towns and villages. He was …
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World Health Day: PCHR Calls for Providing Medical Supplies and COVID-19 Testing Kits to Gaza Strip's Health Sector
PCHR | imemc.org | 2020-04-07
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) World Health Day is celebrated each year on April 7th, and it was first sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1950 to raise health awareness. The theme for World Health Day 2020 is "Year of the Nurse and Midwife" to support nurses …
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Is This The Death Of The Two-State Solution?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-06
In his new book, "Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality," Ian Lustick describes the end of not only the two-state solution, but also the idea of partition.
therealnews.com/stories/paradigm-lost-death-of-two-state-solution-israel-palestine

Here is Why Jared Kushner is the Point Man for Private Profiteering During the Coronavirus Response
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-04-06
Raw Story See article on original site Hot off of singlehandedly ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, America's Son-In-Law-In-Chief has put himself in charge of handling half of the White House response to the coronavirus crisis. Didn't you know that? No? Oh, well, it seems the White House just decided that, ah, the people didn't need to …
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