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The Covid-19 outbreak will lead to untold misery and death in besieged Gaza
The international community must say clearly that Israel's denial of medicines and resources to Gaza is a form of collective punishment and illegal under international law, writes HUGH LANNING
A Palestinian child wears a face mask as a precaution for the new coronavirus as he plays outside his home in Shati refugee camp, west Gaza City
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OVER the weekend, the devastating news broke for the people of Palestine of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the densely populated Gaza strip.
It is important for everyone in the labour and solidarity movements to understand why this is truly a nightmare situation for the people of the besieged Gaza strip, and why these 1.8 million people are particularly vulnerable.
The UN has previously warned that Gaza would be uninhabitable by 2020, and now 13 years of an illegal blockade mean that Gaza’s fragile healthcare system is already stretched to a point that it is hard for us to imagine. Covid-19 means it will now be placed under a simply unbearable strain.
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