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My latest @mondoweiss: The pandemic’s savage political revelations, from the U.S. to Palestine - Palestinians in Israel & the territories have had less access to testing & information due to their second-class citizenship and the conditions of occupation: https://mondoweiss.net/2020/08/the-pandemics-savage-political-revelations-from-the-u-s-to-palestine/
In the West Bank and Gaza, there are significant deficits in medical resources (such as ventilators) and trained (and adequately paid) medical staff.
In general Palestinians under occupation have high rates of diseases related to stress, poverty, smoking, and poor nutrition...
In general Palestinians under occupation have high rates of diseases related to stress, poverty, smoking, and poor nutrition...
such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity. They tend to live in environments contaminated by the detritus of war and the toxics from unregulated industries (such as Israeli industrial zones in the West Bank) with high levels of asthma and cancer.
Palestinians often work in jobs that cannot be done on Zoom and that provide no labor protections– notably the construction and homecare workers who travel daily to Israel from the West Bank, waiting for hours in crowded checkpoints. Pls read and share: https://mondoweiss.net/2020/08/the-pandemics-savage-political-revelations-from-the-u-s-to-palestine/
