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A paramedic from the Palestinian Ministry of Health checks the body temperature of a Palestinian laborer after exiting an Israeli army checkpoint, on his way home at the end of a day work in Israel
THE Israeli government has been accused of hindering Palestinian efforts to combat the Covid-19 crisis after officials confiscated medical tents in the West Bank.
Early on Thursday, officials from the Israeli occupation administration stole eight tent structures from the town of Ibziq in the Jordan Valley, two of which were to be used as emergency clinics, according to Israeli human-rights group B’Tselem.
The group described the action as “shocking” and “especially cruel” during this time of global crisis.
For those who lived in Yanoun, its disappearance is not just a local tragedy, but a stark symbol of escalating violence, displacement and impunity across the occupied West Bank, says JANE HARRIES
RAMZY BAROUD looks at how entire West Bank communities have been shattered, their social and physical fabric deliberately dismantled by Israel to enable its formal annexation
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
