page_title: COVID-19 pandemic in the State of Palestine
hierarchical_section_title: COVID-19 pandemic in the State of Palestine
caption_attribution_description: العربية: يخلو شارع المدينة المنورة في مدينة سلفيت يوم 25 مارس 2020 من السكان وذلك تطبيقًا لقرار الحجر الإلزامي جراء جائحة فيروس كورونا في فلسطين 2020 English: Al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah Street in the city of Salfit on March 25, 2020, is empty of people, in implementation of the mandatory quarantine decision due to the Corona virus pandemic in Palestine 2020
context_page_description: The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have spread to the West Bank on 5 March 2020, beginning the COVID-19 pandemic in Palestine. The Palestinian health ministry said the cases had first been detected at a hotel in the Bethlehem area, where a group of Greek tourists had visited the hotel in late February, with two later diagnosed with the virus.
  Israel confiscated tents, some destined for a field hospital for Khirbet Ibzik, in late March, and blocked the construction of another in an early phase of construction on private Palestinian land in Hebron, where the emergency is intense, on the grounds that it lacks an Israeli building permit. The senior United Nations official in the region told the Security Council in a 23 April videoconference meeting that Israelis and Palestinians are cooperating in unprecedented ways to deal with the pandemic but that Israel must do more to safeguard the health of all people under its control.
  According to analysis by Haaretz as of 22 July 2020, there is concern that a combination of events may conspire to cause the situation to spin out of control.
context_section_description: The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have spread to the West Bank on 5 March 2020, beginning the COVID-19 pandemic in Palestine. The Palestinian health ministry said the cases had first been detected at a hotel in the Bethlehem area, where a group of Greek tourists had visited the hotel in late February, with two later diagnosed with the virus.
  Israel  confiscated tents, some destined for a field hospital for Khirbet Ibzik, in late March, and blocked the construction of another in an early phase of construction on private Palestinian land in Hebron, where the emergency is intense, on the grounds that it lacks an Israeli building permit. The senior United Nations official in the region told the Security Council in a 23 April videoconference meeting that Israelis and Palestinians are cooperating in unprecedented ways to deal with the pandemic but that Israel must do more to safeguard the health of all people under its control.
  According to analysis by Haaretz as of 22 July 2020, there is concern that a combination of events may conspire to cause the situation to spin out of control. Following the severing of security coordination and civilian ties with Israel, Palestinians stopped coordinating the treatment of patients with Israel, stopped accepting mail and packages through Israeli ports and severed coordination with the IDF as well as with Shin Bet. Supervision of border crossings with Israel has also ceased. On top of this, the dispute with Israel over tax revenues is having a serious economic impact.
  The first two cases in Gaza City, Gaza were diagnosed on 21 March and there were 182 active cases and three deaths as of 29 August 2020. The International Committee of the Red Cross warned on 26 August that the health care system in the besieged Gaza Strip will not be able to deal with more than a few dozen patients. Gaza had managed to prevent community transmission of the virus through a strict quarantine regime a situation that changed on August 24 with the announcement of confirmed cases outside of quarantine centers. The Hebron district is an epicenter and there are 3,291 active cases as of the same date, 109 persons having died.
caption: Empty streets in Salfit in March 2020
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