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• What the coronavirus outbreak means for Palestinian refugees
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• Coronavirus outbreak in the time of apartheid
by Osama Tanous, Al Jazeera English
• Israel’s caging of Gaza is a recipe for coronavirus disaster
by Jehad Abusalim, +972 Magazine
• ‘A hotbed for fake news’: How Palestinians are
fighting coronavirus misinformation
Yara Asi and Marwa Fatafta, +972 Magazine
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COVID-19 RESPONSE PLAN
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Christian Organizations write to President Trump and Secretaries Mnuchin and Pompeo
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Urge Congress to restore humanitarian aid to Palestinians including UNRWA, aid that had been cut by the Trump administaions, and thank them for their efforts to provide aid in the previous year
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