Two Palestinian were placed in quarantine in Rafah on their arrival on 19 March 2020 from Egypt after testing positive of coronavirus during the pandemic in the State of Palestine .
Three of the new cases were students from Ramallah returning from the United Kingdom and the fourth was a physician from Hebron who contracted the disease while working at the Israeli Hadassah Ein Karem hospital . *On 21 March , Palestinian sources confirmed the first two cases in Gaza City , Gaza , which originated from Pakistan ; two Palestinians traveled from Pakistan entered Gaza through Egypt , tested positive for the virus and were placed in quarantine in Rafah since their arrival on 19 March .