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    Gaza Enters New Phase as Coronavirus Cases Found Outside Quarantine Centers
    Date: 25 August 2020 – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
    ▻https://www.pchrgaza.org/en/?p=14964

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    The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) follows with great concern recent developments on the spread of coronavirus in the Gaza Strip, pursuant to the official announcement on Monday evening, 24 August 2020, of four coronavirus cases found for the first time in the Gaza Strip outside quarantine centers and from citizens inside the Gaza Strip. PCHR warns of the catastrophic consequences of the spread of the pandemic in the Gaza Strip considering its exhausted health system due to 14 years of closure and collective punishment, imposed illegally and inhumanly by Israeli occupation forces.

    Since Monday evening, Gaza authorities imposed a 48-hour curfew across the Gaza Strip, and suspended work in public and private sectors, and shutdown educational institutions, mosques, markets, wedding halls and clubs, and banned all gatherings in order to contain the virus, identify possible cases and to deal with individuals who had contact with corona cases.

    This is the first time a coronavirus case was documented outside the Gaza Strip quarantine centers, as the measures put forward since March 2020 contained the spread of the virus in the Gaza Strip.

    As the Gaza Strip endures a 20-hour power outage per day, due to the Israeli ban on the import of fuel for operating the power plant, PCHR fears a dangerous and accelerated deterioration in health conditions, as explained in its detailed press release earlier today.

    With these developments, the Gaza Strip witnesses a new and unprecedented phase that will affect all aspects of life and aggravate the already critical humanitarian conditions. (...)

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      A Gaza, le confinement s’ajoute aux roquettes et aux bombardements - Libération
      ▻https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2020/08/25/a-gaza-le-confinement-s-ajoute-aux-roquettes-et-aux-bombardements_1797685

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      Le Hamas a instauré lundi soir un confinement strict de l’enclave sous blocus, où quatre cas de coronavirus ont été dépistés dans un camp de réfugiés. Le tout en plein regain de tensions sécuritaires avec Israël.

      A Gaza, voilà que le confinement généralisé s’ajoute au blocus, dans un contexte de recrudescence des tensions avec Israël. Pour la première fois depuis le début de la pandémie, l’état d’urgence a été déclaré lundi soir par le Hamas, qui contrôle la bande côtière. Après la découverte de quatre cas de coronavirus parmi les membres d’une même famille vivant dans un camp de réfugiés, un couvre-feu a été instauré pour les prochaines quarante-huit heures. Mosquées, écoles, salles des fêtes, bâtiments administratifs et autres restaurants sont fermés jusqu’à nouvel ordre.

      Avant cela, les cas de contamination avaient été repérés uniquement chez des Palestiniens revenant de l’étranger et rentrant au compte-gouttes dans Gaza par l’Egypte ou Israël, tous forcés à une quarantaine stricte dans des hôtels et casernes dédiés pour une durée de trois semaines. La réapparition surprise du virus dans le camp d’Al-Maghazi, où plus de 30 000 Palestiniens sont entassés sur un demi-kilomètre carré, a provoqué une onde de choc dans l’enclave, qui craint de voir son système médical, ravagé par les guerres et les privations, s’écrouler si le virus venait à s’y propager. (...)

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    Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (13– 18 August 2020) – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
    ▻https://www.pchrgaza.org/en/?p=14941

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    (...) This week, IOF escalated its attacks on the Gaza Strip with multiple airstrikes, one of which landed on a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school in Gaza city. Additionally, IOF tightened its closure restrictions on the Gaza Strip, closing Karm Abu Salem, banning en try of fuel that resulted in the Gaza Power Plant shutdown, and closing the sea. These decisions is a continuation of the collective punishment policy, and inhumane and illegal retaliatory actions adopted by Israel against the Gaza Strip civilian population since 2007. PCHR fears for the lives of Palestinian civilians as the attacks continue and warns of their repercussions on the collective economic and social rights of Palestinians. Additionally, IOF continued its attacks in the West Bank, including excessive use of force, demolition of houses and facilities and settlement expansion. (...)

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    IOF Tightens Closure and Close the Only Gaza Strip Commercial Crossing
    11August 2020 – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

    ▻https://www.pchrgaza.org/en/?p=14878

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    OF Tightens Closure and Close the Only Gaza Strip Commercial Crossing

    The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the Israeli authorities’ decision to close the Gaza Strip’s sole commercial crossing “Karm Abu Salem” and warns of its catastrophic consequences on the lives of 2 million Palestinians suffering from serious deterioration of humanitarian and social conditions caused by 14 years of Israeli closure. PCHR affirms that this decision falls in line with previous measures that the Israeli authorities implemented against Gaza since 2007 in its overarching plan to strangle it.

    According to PCHR’s follow-up, on Monday, 10 August 2020, Israeli authorities announced the closure of Karm Abu Salem crossing starting from Tuesday, 11 August 2020, except for the transportation of goods for vital humanitarian cases and fuel. According to Israeli Coordinator of Government Activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the decision was taken “in response to the launch of incendiary balloons and breaching security calm.”

    This decision falls under the framework of the complete, illegal and unhumanitarian closure policy imposed by the Israeli authorities on the Gaza Strip since June 2007, as the Gaza Strip crossings have witnessed tightened restrictions on the movement of goods and persons.

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