“Fourteen days of isolation? Welcome to our last 14 years,” goes one quip circulating about covid-19 in Gaza
, businesses shut and much of the world adjusts to being locked down, residents of Gaza can only look on with grim amusement. Isolation is nothing new for the territory’s 2m Palestinians. They have been under blockade since 2007, when Hamas, a militant group, seized power after winning a majority in legislative elections. Israel and Egypt have largely cut off the movement of goods and people in and out of Gaza.
“Fourteen days of isolation? Welcome to our last 14 years,” goes one joke making the rounds on messaging apps. An unemployed graduate, desperate to emigrate, quips that his Palestinian passport is at last worth the same as a European one. Another laughs at videos of Westerners panic-buying the wrong goods—perishable food, incomprehensible amounts of toilet roll—and jokes about starting an online course to teach proper stockpiling.
No longer. On March 21st the health ministry announced the territory’s first two cases of covid-19. The patients had returned two days earlier from Pakistan, via the Rafah crossing with Egypt. Days later another seven cases were confirmed, all members of the security forces who had met the returnees. Officials said all the patients were isolated. Still, they took no chances. Restaurants and cafés have been closed and Friday prayers cancelled.
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